U+0948 "ै" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0948 "ै" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ai is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the vowel sound "ai," which is typically a diphthong found in languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit. It is written as a horizontal line with a small hook above the consonant it modifies, attaching to the top of the base character to change its inherent vowel from a short "a" to the longer "ai" sound. This sign is a standard component of the Devanagari abugida, where it follows the consonant in visual order and is encoded for digital text to ensure proper rendering of South Asian languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0948 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Ai |
| 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0948 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000948 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0948 |