U+A839 "꠹" North Indic Quantity Mark Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A839 "꠹" North Indic Quantity Mark is a rare typographic symbol used in historical and scholarly contexts for the representation of ancient North Indian numeral systems, specifically serving as a mark indicating a unit of quantity or measure within manuscripts and inscriptions. It belongs to the Syloti Nagri block, though it is not part of the standard Sylheti alphabet, and is encoded primarily for the transliteration and accurate reproduction of historical documents where such quantity marks appear. This character is distinct from regular digits and punctuation, functioning as a specialized notation for denoting amounts or counts, making it valuable for philologists and historians working with early Indic texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A839
Name
North Indic Quantity Mark
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
꠹
HTML Hex Encoding
꠹
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA0 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA839
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A839
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua839
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Devanagari Dogra Gujarati Gurmukhi Khojki Kaithi Mahajani Modi Khudawadi Takri Tirhuta