SAURASHTRA SIGN VISARGA character

SAURASHTRA SIGN VISARGA
U+A881
43137
ꢁ
ꢁ
Mc (Spacing Combining Mark)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Saurashtra
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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SAURASHTRA SIGN VISARGA is a spacing combining mark (positive advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SAURASHTRA SIGN VISARGA 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 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..