U+094B "ो" Devanagari Vowel Sign O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+094B "ो" Devanagari Vowel Sign O is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script, which is employed for languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, and Marathi. This vowel sign represents the long "o" sound and is placed above the consonant character it modifies, as per the rules of Devanagari orthography where consonant letters inherently carry a short "a" sound that is overridden by these signs. It is part of a broader system of matras that allow for the precise phonetic representation of vowels in an abugida writing system, and its correct encoding is essential for accurate digital text rendering and linguistic data processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+094B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign 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 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x094B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000094B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u094b |