U+0ABD "ઽ" Gujarati Sign Avagraha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ઽ
U+0ABD "ઽ" Gujarati Sign Avagraha is a diacritic mark used in the Gujarati script to indicate a type of elision or contraction, historically derived from the Sanskrit Avagraha symbol. It functions primarily in transliterations of Sanskrit and Prakrit texts, as well as in modern Gujarati poetry and phonetics, to show the deletion of a vowel sound at the end of one word when the next word begins with a vowel. This sign appears as a distinct grapheme that resembles a small curved tail or hook attached to the preceding character, and it plays a crucial role in preserving the intended meter and pronunciation of classical compositions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0ABD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Sign Avagraha |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ઽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ઽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0ABD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000ABD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0abd |