MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN O character

MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN O
U+11CB4
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Mc (Spacing Combining Mark)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Marchen
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN O is a spacing combining mark (positive advance width) from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of MARCHEN VOWEL SIGN O 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 Marchen block. The Marchen block contains characters used in the Marchen script, which is used for writing the Tibetan-based language Zhang-Zhung, spoken historically in western Tibet. The script is an abugida, with each consonant carrying an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritics. The Marchen script was used primarily for religious texts associated with the Bon religion, which predates the introduction of Buddhism to Tibet. This block includes all the characters needed to write in Marchen, reflecting its historical and religious significance..