U+0A91 "ઑ" Gujarati Vowel Candra O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ઑ
U+0A91 "ઑ" Gujarati Vowel Candra O is a distinct vowel sign in the Gujarati script used to represent the sound of a short or lengthened open-mid rounded vowel, often transliterated as "ô" or "ŏ." Unlike the more common vowel sign for "O" (ઓ), which uses a different diacritic, the Candra O character incorporates a crescent-shaped mark above the consonant it modifies, and it is specifically employed in the transcription of Sanskrit and other classical texts to denote a precise phonetic quality that standard Gujar script vowels do not always capture. This character is part of the Unicode block for Gujarati and is essential for accurate representation of certain loanwords and scholarly transliterations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A91 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Vowel Candra O |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ઑ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ઑ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x91 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A91 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A91 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a91 |