U+0853 MANDAIC LETTER AR

The Unicode character U+0853, officially named MANDAIC LETTER AR, was introduced in Unicode version 6.0. It is part of the Mandaic block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Mand script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Right-To-Left character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.