U+0904 "ऄ" Devanagari Letter Short A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ऄ
U+0904 "ऄ" Devanagari Letter Short A is a less common vowel sign in the Devanagari script, representing a short, low, or shortened version of the inherent 'a' sound, distinct from the regular Devanagari letter अ. This character is primarily used in transliterating specific sounds from other languages, such as Arabic or English, where a shorter vowel is required, and it appears in scholarly or linguistic texts rather than in standard Hindi or Sanskrit writing. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for precise phonetic representation in digital environments, particularly for South Asian languages that require nuanced vowel distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0904 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Short A |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ऄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ऄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0904 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000904 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0904 |