DEVANAGARI SIGN HIGH SPACING DOT character

DEVANAGARI SIGN HIGH SPACING DOT
U+0971
2417
ॱ
ॱ
Lm (Modifier Letter)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Devanagari
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ॱ












DEVANAGARI SIGN HIGH SPACING DOT is a modifier letter from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of DEVANAGARI SIGN HIGH SPACING DOT 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.

Modifier Letter (Lm) refers to characters that are small, typically superscript or subscript, letters used to modify the meaning of another character. These are not full letters in themselves but serve to modify other characters in linguistic or phonetic contexts.

This character belongs to the Devanagari block. The Devanagari block contains characters used in the Devanagari script, which is used for writing several languages in India, including Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit. The Devanagari script is an abugida, where each consonant carries an inherent vowel sound that can be modified by adding diacritical marks. This block includes all the essential characters needed to write these languages, including vowels, consonants, numerals, and various diacritics. Devanagari is one of the most widely used scripts in India and plays a crucial role in religious, literary, and governmental texts..