U+0953 "॓" Devanagari Grave Accent Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
॓
U+0953 "॓" Devanagari Grave Accent is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script, primarily applied in Sanskrit transliteration and certain scholarly texts to indicate a low or falling tone on a vowel. It is placed above a Devanagari character, such as a vowel sign or consonant, to modify its pronunciation according to Vedic chanting or phonetic transcription conventions. This accent does not function as an independent letter but serves as a phonetic marker, and it is distinct from similar marks like the Devanagari Stress Sign or other tone indicators, reflecting the rich suprasegmental features preserved in ancient Indian linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0953 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Grave Accent |
| 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 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0953 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000953 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0953 |