U+094E "ॎ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Prishthamatra E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ॎ
U+094E "ॎ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Prishthamatra E is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a specific form of the vowel "e" positioned after the consonant, known as the "prishtha matra" or back-facing vowel sign. This character is distinct from the standard Devanagari vowel sign for e, as it attaches to the right side of the base consonant, historically employed in certain Vedic or Sanskrit texts for precise phonetic representation. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures accurate digital preservation and rendering of ancient manuscripts and scholarly works that require this specialized orthographic variant.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+094E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Prishthamatra E |
| 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 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x094E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000094E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u094e |