SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA character

SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA
U+A8C4
43204
꣄
꣄
Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
9
Saurashtra
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
꣄












SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA 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 Saurashtra block. The Saurashtra block contains characters used in the Saurashtra script, which is used for writing the Saurashtra language spoken by the Saurashtrian community in southern India. The script is an abugida, with each consonant having an inherent vowel sound that can be modified by diacritics. The Saurashtra script was historically used for religious and literary texts, although the language is now often written in the Latin, Tamil, or Devanagari scripts. This block includes all the characters needed to write in the Saurashtra script, reflecting its cultural and linguistic heritage..