U+0956 "ॖ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ॖ
U+0956 "ॖ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ue is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the vowel sound /ɨ/ or /ʉ/, which is a close central or close back unrounded vowel distinct from the more common short and long vowels. This character is primarily employed in the writing of the Kashmiri language, where it modifies a consonant to produce a specific phonetic value not covered by the standard vowel signs of Hindi or Sanskrit. Visually, the sign appears as a small curved mark attached above and to the right of the consonant character, and its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text processing systems can accurately represent this distinctive vowel.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0956 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Ue |
| 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 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0956 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000956 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0956 |