U+0D57 MALAYALAM AU LENGTH MARK

The Unicode character U+0D57, officially named MALAYALAM AU LENGTH MARK, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the Malayalam block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Spacing Mark, this character typically falls under the Mlym 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 Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.