SOGDIAN COMBINING TWO DOTS ABOVE character

SOGDIAN COMBINING TWO DOTS ABOVE
U+10F49
69449
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Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
230
Sogdian
1
SMP
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
10000-1FFFF
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SOGDIAN COMBINING TWO DOTS ABOVE is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SOGDIAN COMBINING TWO DOTS ABOVE 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 Sogdian block. The Sogdian script was used by the Sogdian people during the 4th to 10th centuries CE and is closely related to Old Sogdian, evolving from earlier forms of the script. As one of the major scripts of Central Asia, it was used to write the Sogdian language, which was widely spoken along the Silk Road. Sogdian texts cover a wide range of subjects, including religious texts from Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Manichaeism, as well as secular documents like letters, contracts, and trade records. The inclusion of the Sogdian script in Unicode is crucial for historians and linguists studying the cultural and economic exchanges that occurred along the Silk Road. By providing a way to digitally encode these texts, Unicode helps ensure the preservation of this historically significant script, contributing to our understanding of the ancient world and the connections between East and West..