U+0962 "ॢ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0962 "ॢ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a vocalic L sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in Sanskrit and certain scholarly transliterations. It is attached to a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, specifically indicating the vocalic form of the L consonant, which is distinct from the more common vocalic R sounds. This character is part of the Devanagari block in Unicode and is primarily employed in linguistic, liturgical, and academic contexts for the accurate rendering of ancient Indic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0962 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0962 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000962 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0962 |