U+094A "ॊ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Short O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+094A "ॊ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Short O is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the short vowel sound "o". Visually, it appears as a small crescent-shaped stroke placed above a consonant character, altering its inherent vowel sound from the default "a" to a short "o". This character is part of the Devanagari block in Unicode and is utilized in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali, where it aids in accurately representing the phonetics of short o vowels in words. As a combining mark, it is always written in conjunction with a base consonant and does not appear independently.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+094A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Short O |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x094A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000094A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u094a |