U+AA5E "꩞" Cham Punctuation Double Danda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꩞
U+AA5E "꩞" Cham Punctuation Double Danda is a script-specific punctuation mark used in the Cham language of Cambodia and Vietnam, functioning as a strong separator similar to a sentence or section break. It is part of the Cham block within Unicode and represents a double danda, a visual pair of vertical lines that typically indicates the end of a major textual division, such as a stanza, verse, or thematic segment, in written Cham. This character is distinct from the general Devanagari or other script dandas, serving the unique orthographic and historical needs of the Cham script, which is classified as a Brahmic-based abugida.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA5E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Punctuation Double Danda |
| Block | Cham |
| 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 0xA9 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA5E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA5E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa5e |