U+A8EF COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER RA

The Unicode character U+A8EF, officially named COMBINING DEVANAGARI LETTER RA, was introduced in Unicode version 5.2. It is part of the Devanagari Ext block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Nonspacing Mark, this character typically falls under the Deva 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 Unknown character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.