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U+A8C4 COMBINING MARK

SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA

Preview uses dotted circle base (◌) for visibility. Clipboard copy copies only the raw diacritic mark.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA
Code Point U+A8C4
Decimal Value 43204
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Saurashtra →
Script Saurashtra →
Unicode Version Unicode 5.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EA A3 84
UTF-16 Code Unit A8C4
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000A8C4
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: A8 C4 LE: C4 A8
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 A8 C4 LE: C4 A8 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ꣄
HTML Hexadecimal ꣄
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00A8C4
JavaScript (ES6) \uA8C4
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uA8C4
JSON Escape \uA8C4
Python \uA8C4
PHP "\u{A8C4}"
Java "\uA8C4"
C / C++ "\uA8C4"
Rust '\u{a8c4}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EA%A3%84

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 9 — Virama
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSM — Nonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+A8C4 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
◌꣄
Context: A ◌꣄ Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
◌꣄
Context: A ◌꣄ Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
◌꣄
Context: A ◌꣄ Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
◌꣄
Context: A ◌꣄ Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name SAURASHTRA SIGN VIRAMA

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+A8C4

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