U+093A "ऺ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Oe Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+093A "ऺ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Oe is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a vowel sound that is not present in standard Hindi, but is found in certain regional languages and transliteration schemes, particularly for writing the Marathi language's 'ऑ' (like the 'o' in 'hot') and in scholarly notations for Sanskrit or other Indic phonetic transcriptions. It is positioned above and to the right of a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, providing a distinct sound that differs from the more common long and short 'o' signs.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+093A |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Oe |
| 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 0xBA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x093A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000093A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u093a |