U+0977 "ॷ" Devanagari Letter Uue Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0977 "ॷ" Devanagari Letter Uue is a rare and specialized vowel character used in the Devanagari script to represent a distinctive long vowel sound in specific transliteration systems, primarily for transcribing ancient Vedic or other Sanskrit texts. It is classified as a vowel letter and typically appears in scholarly or liturgical contexts where precise phonetic representation is necessary, often corresponding to an extended or drawn-out "u" sound. This character is not commonly found in modern standard Hindi or other contemporary Devanagari-based languages, making its usage largely confined to linguistic studies, religious chanting, and academic publications that require accurate notation of historical or dialectal phonetics.

General Properties

Code Point U+0977
Version Added 6.0
Name Devanagari Letter Uue
Block Devanagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ॷ
HTML Hex Encoding ॷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA5 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0977
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000977
C/C++/Java Escape \u0977

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