U+0AC1 "ુ" Gujarati Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ુ
U+0AC1 "ુ" Gujarati Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to represent the short vowel sound /u/. It is placed below the consonant letter to which it attaches, modifying the consonant’s inherent vowel sound from the default /ə/ to /u/. This character is an essential component of the Gujarati abugida, where vowels are written as dependent signs rather than independent letters, and it appears in words such as "ગુજરાતી" (Gujarati) itself.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AC1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Vowel Sign U |
| 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 0xAB 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ac1 |