U+093C "़" Devanagari Sign Nukta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
़
U+093C "़" Devanagari Sign Nukta is a combining diacritical mark used primarily in the Devanagari script to modify the sound of the base consonant it attaches to, often representing sounds borrowed from other languages such as Persian, Arabic, or English. It appears as a small dot placed below the consonant, and its application changes the standard phonetic value, for example turning a "k" sound into a "q" sound or a "j" sound into a "z" sound. The nukta is essential for accurately writing many words in Hindi, Marathi, and other languages that use the Devanagari script, ensuring proper representation of foreign or regional pronunciations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+093C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Nukta |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ़ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ़ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x093C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000093C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u093c |