U+090D "ऍ" Devanagari Letter Candra E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ऍ
U+090D "ऍ" Devanagari Letter Candra E is a vowel used primarily in the Devanagari script to represent a short, open-mid front unrounded vowel sound, often romanized as "ê" or "ĕ" and sometimes described as a "candrabindu e" due to its diacritic shape resembling a crescent moon over the base character. It appears mainly in transliterations of foreign words, particularly from English or Arabic, and in specific Indian languages like Marathi and Kashmiri, where it denotes a distinct pronunciation separate from the more common short "e" represented by "ए" (U+090F). This character is less frequently used in standard Hindi but remains important for precise phonetic transcription in scholarly and linguistic contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+090D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Candra E |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ऍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ऍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x090D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000090D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u090d |