U+A8FC "꣼" Devanagari Sign Siddham Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣼
U+A8FC "꣼" Devanagari Sign Siddham is a specialized diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script, primarily within religious and manuscript contexts. It represents a sacred symbol meaning "perfection" or "accomplishment," often appearing at the end of prayers, texts, or invocations in Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism to denote completion or auspiciousness. This character is distinct from the more common Siddham script signs and serves as a textual marker rather than a phonetic component, underscoring its ritualistic and orthographic significance in ancient and medieval South Asian manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8FC |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Siddham |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8FC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8FC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8fc |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Break Before |
| Script | Devanagari |
| Script Extensions | Devanagari |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |