COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER AZU character

COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER AZU
U+1E000
122880
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Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
230
Glagolitic Supplement
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER AZU is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of COMBINING GLAGOLITIC LETTER AZU is Nonspacing Mark (Weak). It belongs to the non-spacing marks, which take on the directionality of the characters to which they attach..

The Nonspacing Mark (NSM) bidi class is assigned to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but modify the preceding base character. NSMs are neutral in directionality but inherit the directionality of the base character they are attached to. They are essential for the accurate representation of characters with diacritics in bidirectional text.

Nonspacing Mark (Mn) refers to diacritical marks that do not occupy their own space but instead combine with a preceding base character to modify its sound or meaning. Nonspacing marks are essential in many scripts, including Latin, Arabic, and Devanagari, for accurate representation of text.

This character belongs to the Glagolitic Supplement block. The Glagolitic Supplement block contains additional characters used in the Glagolitic script, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, created in the 9th century by Saints Cyril and Methodius. This block extends the basic Glagolitic script to include additional characters needed for writing in Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages. The Glagolitic script was used primarily for religious texts and liturgy among the Slavic peoples of the Balkans, particularly in Croatia..