U+0A81 "ઁ" Gujarati Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ઁ
U+0A81 "ઁ" Gujarati Sign Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to indicate the nasalization of a vowel, often corresponding to the anusvara or a nasal sound in the transliteration of Sanskrit and other languages. It appears as a small crescent with a dot above it, typically placed above a consonant or vowel character to modify its pronunciation. In the Gujarati writing system, the candrabindu is distinct from the anusvara, as it specifically denotes a more subtle nasalization, and it is an essential component for accurately representing certain loanwords and scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A81 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ઁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ઁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a81 |