U+0975 "ॵ" Devanagari Letter Aw Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0975 "ॵ" Devanagari Letter Aw is a specific vowel sign used in the Devanagari script, primarily to represent the sound of the vowel "aw" in languages like Sanskrit and occasionally in Hindi for transliterating foreign or archaic terms. It is a distinct glyph that appears as a modified form of the vowel letter "अ" (a) with a special diacritic mark, indicating a prolonged or rounded vowel quality. This character is part of the Devanagari block in Unicode and is designed to support accurate phonetic transcription in scholarly, liturgical, or linguistic contexts where the standard vowel inventory may be insufficient. Its inclusion ensures that digital text systems can correctly render and preserve the orthographic nuances of ancient or technical writings.

General Properties

Code Point U+0975
Version Added 6.0
Name Devanagari Letter Aw
Block Devanagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ॵ
HTML Hex Encoding ॵ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA5 0xB5
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0975
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000975
C/C++/Java Escape \u0975

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Devanagari
Script Extensions Devanagari
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter