U+0957 "ॗ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Uue Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0957 "ॗ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Uue is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a vowel sound that is a longer or modified form of the short "u," typically transcribed as "ū" or "uue." It is placed above or attached to a consonant character to indicate the specific vowel quality, and while it is encoded in the Unicode standard for historical or scholarly representation of certain Sanskrit or Prakrit texts, it is not widely used in modern standard Hindi or other contemporary Devanagari-based languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0957 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Uue |
| 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 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0957 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000957 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0957 |