U+094F "ॏ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Aw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+094F "ॏ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Aw is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a vowel sound distinct from the standard short or long vowels, primarily appearing in transliterations of Sanskrit or other languages to denote a specific phonetic nuance. It is placed above the consonant it modifies, altering its inherent vowel sound to an "aw" or similar open-mid back rounded vowel, and is supported in modern digital text for accurate representation of scholarly or liturgical works.

General Properties

Code Point U+094F
Version Added 6.0
Name Devanagari Vowel Sign Aw
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 0x8F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x094F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000094F
C/C++/Java Escape \u094f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Combining Mark
Script Devanagari
Script Extensions Devanagari
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend