U+0AC3 "ૃ" Gujarati Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0AC3 "ૃ" Gujarati Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to represent a vocalic r sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in linguistic transcription and Sanskrit-derived vocabulary. Positioned beneath a consonant character, this sign modifies the base letter to indicate the vocalic r vowel, which is distinct from the regular consonant r. It is part of the Gujarati Unicode block and is utilized primarily in scholarly or religious contexts for accurately rendering transliterations of Sanskrit and Old Gujarati texts, though it is rarely used in modern Gujarati everyday writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AC3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ac3 |