U+094F "ॏ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Aw Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |