U+0951 "॑" Devanagari Stress Sign Udatta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
॑
U+0951 "॑" Devanagari Stress Sign Udatta is a diacritical mark used in the Sanskrit and Devanagari scripts to indicate a specific type of high-pitched or raised accent known as udatta, which contrasts with anudatta (low pitch) and svarita (falling pitch) in Vedic chanting and textual recitation. This combining mark, placed above a character, serves as a tonal notation essential for preserving the accurate pronunciation and prosody of ancient Vedic hymns, particularly in the Rigveda and other shruti texts. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that scholars, linguists, and practitioners can digitally represent and transmit these subtle phonetic details without loss of the text's original religious and linguistic integrity.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0951 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Stress Sign Udatta |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0951 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000951 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0951 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Joining Type | Transparent |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Inherited |
| Script Extensions | Bengali Devanagari Grantha Gujarati Gurmukhi Kannada Latin Malayalam Nandinagari Newa Oriya Sharada Tamil Telugu Tirhuta |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Cantillation Mark |
| Indic Positional Category | Top |
| Indic Conjunct Break | Extend |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Extend | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Extend |
| Word Break | Extend |
| Sentence Break | Extend |