SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER DHO character

SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER DHO
U+A817
43031
ꠗ
ꠗ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Syloti Nagri
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
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SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER DHO is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of SYLOTI NAGRI LETTER DHO 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.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Syloti Nagri block. The Syloti Nagri block contains characters used in the Syloti Nagri script, which is used to write the Sylheti language spoken in parts of India and Bangladesh. The script is an abugida, where each consonant has an inherent vowel sound that can be altered by adding diacritical marks. The Syloti Nagri script has a long history, dating back several centuries, and was once widely used for literary and religious texts. This block includes characters for consonants, vowels, and various diacritics. Today, there is a revival of interest in the script, particularly in the context of preserving Sylheti cultural identity..