U+0901 "ँ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ँ
U+0901 "ँ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to indicate nasalization of a vowel, specifically representing a nasal sound that is often described as a "moon dot" due to its crescent shape with a dot above. It is placed above a character, such as in the combination "कँ" to modify the pronunciation, and is distinct from the anusvara, though both involve nasalization. In Sanskrit and Hindi, the candrabindu typically denotes a nasalized vowel or a more precise nasal articulation, and it appears in words like "हँस" for "laugh" or "मँझधार" for "midstream," where it alters the vowel sound to be pronounced through the nose.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0901 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ँ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ँ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0901 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000901 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0901 |