U+A8FA DEVANAGARI CARET

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Decimal / Nº
43258
General Category
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+A8FA, officially named DEVANAGARI CARET, 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 Other Punctuation, 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 Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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43258 Copied!
UTF-8 EA A3 BA Copied!
UTF-16 A8 FA Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 A8 FA Copied!
URL-Quoted %EA%A3%BA Copied!
HTML hex reference ꣺ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'A8FA' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \uA8FA Copied!
C and C++ \ua8fa Copied!
C# \ua8fa Copied!
CSS \00A8FA Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(43258) Copied!
Go \ua8fa Copied!
JavaScript \uA8FA Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{a8fa} Copied!
JSON \uA8FA Copied!
Java \uA8FA Copied!
Lua \u{A8FA} Copied!
Matlab char(43258) Copied!
Perl \x{A8FA} Copied!
PHP \u{a8fa} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\A8FA' Copied!
PowerShell `u{A8FA} Copied!
Python \ua8fa Copied!
Ruby \u{a8fa} Copied!
Rust \u{a8fa} Copied!