U+0955 "ॕ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Candra Long E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ॕ
U+0955 "ॕ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Candra Long E is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to modify a consonant, representing the vowel sound of a long "E" with an additional candra or chandrabindu nuance often implying a slight nasalization or a specific phonetic quality in certain orthographic conventions. This character is visually distinguished by a small curved mark, resembling a crescent or moon shape, placed above the consonant it attaches to, and it is primarily employed in scholarly or liturgical contexts, such as the transcription of Vedic Sanskrit, where precise vowel length and articulation are crucial.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0955 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Candra Long E |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0955 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000955 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0955 |