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U+A8EC COMBINING MARK

COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER KA

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

Quick Facts

Unicode Name COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER KA
Code Point U+A8EC
Decimal Value 43244
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Devanagari Extended →
Script Devanagari →
Unicode Version Unicode 5.2 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes EA A3 AC
UTF-16 Code Unit A8EC
UTF-32 4 bytes 0000A8EC
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: A8 EC LE: EC A8
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 A8 EC LE: EC A8 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ꣬
HTML Hexadecimal ꣬
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \00A8EC
JavaScript (ES6) \uA8EC
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uA8EC
JSON Escape \uA8EC
Python \uA8EC
PHP "\u{A8EC}"
Java "\uA8EC"
C / C++ "\uA8EC"
Rust '\u{a8ec}'
URL Percent-Encoded %EA%A3%AC

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 230Above (Acute, Grave, Tilde, etc.)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSMNonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+A8EC 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 COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER KA

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

Identifier U+A8EC

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