SUNDANESE VOWEL SIGN PAMEPET character

SUNDANESE VOWEL SIGN PAMEPET
U+1BA8
7080
ᮨ
ᮨ
Mn (Nonspacing Mark)
NSM (Nonspacing Mark)
N
0
Sundanese
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ᮨ












SUNDANESE VOWEL SIGN PAMEPET is a nonspacing combining mark (zero advance width) from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SUNDANESE VOWEL SIGN PAMEPET 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 Sundanese block. The Sundanese block contains characters used in the Sundanese script, which is used for writing the Sundanese language spoken on the island of Java, Indonesia. The script is an abugida, with each consonant having an inherent vowel that can be modified with diacritics. The Sundanese script was used in pre-colonial times for various texts, including literature, legal documents, and religious texts. Although it was largely replaced by the Latin alphabet during the colonial period, there has been a revival of the script in recent years as a symbol of Sundanese cultural identity..