AHOM VOWEL SIGN A character

AHOM VOWEL SIGN A
U+11720
71456
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Mc (Spacing Combining Mark)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Ahom
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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AHOM VOWEL SIGN A is a spacing combining mark (positive advance width) from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of AHOM VOWEL SIGN A is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Spacing Mark (Mc) refers to marks that typically appear as separate characters in writing. Unlike nonspacing marks, spacing marks take up space in the text and may affect the placement of surrounding characters. They are often used in scripts like Devanagari to indicate vowel sounds.

This character belongs to the Ahom block. The Ahom block contains characters used in the Ahom script, which was used for writing the Ahom language spoken by the Ahom people in Assam, India. The script is an abugida, with each consonant carrying an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritics. The Ahom script was used for religious texts, chronicles, and official records during the Ahom Kingdom (13th to 19th centuries CE). This block includes all the characters needed to write in Ahom, reflecting its significance in the cultural and historical heritage of the Ahom people..