U+0942 "ू" Devanagari Vowel Sign Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ू
U+0942 "ू" Devanagari Vowel Sign Uu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the long vowel sound "ū". It is written as a curved line above a consonant character, modifying its pronunciation by adding the sustained "oo" sound, as in the English word "boot". This vowel sign is essential in languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit for distinguishing word meanings, and it follows the consonant it modifies, appearing as a superscript stroke that visually differs from the short vowel sign "ु" by its longer, more pronounced curve.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0942 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Uu |
| 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 0xA5 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0942 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000942 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0942 |