SAMARITAN VOWEL SIGN LONG A character

Name:

SAMARITAN VOWEL SIGN LONG A

Hex Number:

U+0822

Decimal Number:

2082

HTML Entity (Dec):

ࠢ

HTML Entity (Hex):

ࠢ

Category:

Mn (Nonspacing Mark)

Bidi Class:

NSM (Nonspacing Mark)

Mirrored:

Combining Class:

230

Unicode Block:

Samaritan

Plane:

Plane Code:

BMP

Plane Description:

Basic Multilingual Plane

Plane Range:

0000-FFFF

Character Preview:

ࠢ

SAMARITAN VOWEL SIGN LONG A is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SAMARITAN VOWEL SIGN LONG A 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 Samaritan block. Samaritan is a Unicode block containing characters used for writing Samaritan Hebrew and Aramaic..

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