U+0ACD "્" Gujarati Sign Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0ACD "્" Gujarati Sign Virama is a combining diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to indicate the suppression of the inherent vowel attached to a consonant letter, thereby creating a conjunct consonant or a half-form. It appears as a small diagonal stroke placed beneath a consonant character, and its function is essential for writing complex syllables and forming stacked consonant clusters in Gujarati orthography. This virama does not produce an audible sound itself but modifies the phonetic output of the consonant it follows, making it a crucial element for accurate text rendering in digital and printed Gujarati.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0ACD |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Sign Virama |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ્ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ્ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAB 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0ACD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000ACD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0acd |