ETHIOPIC COMBINING GEMINATION MARK character

ETHIOPIC COMBINING GEMINATION MARK
U+135F
4959
፟
፟
Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
230
Ethiopic
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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ETHIOPIC COMBINING GEMINATION MARK is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of ETHIOPIC COMBINING GEMINATION MARK 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 Ethiopic block. The Ethiopic block contains characters used in the Ge'ez script, which is used for writing several languages in Ethiopia and Eritrea, including Amharic, Tigrinya, and Ge'ez. The script is an abugida, where each consonant is combined with a vowel to form a syllable. This block includes characters for all the basic syllables, as well as additional marks and numerals. The Ge'ez script has a long history, dating back to at least the 4th century AD, and is still used in religious and liturgical contexts by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, as well as in modern language use..