U+094C "ौ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+094C "ौ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Au is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the vowel sound "au" as in the English word "caught" or "loud". It is placed above and to the right of a consonant character, modifying its inherent "a" sound to the longer, diphthongal "au" pronunciation. This vowel sign is a fundamental part of the Devanagari orthography for languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, and Marathi, where it appears in common words like "नौ" (nau, meaning "boat") and "मौन" (maun, meaning "silence").
General Properties
| Code Point | U+094C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Au |
| 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 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x094C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000094C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u094c |