U+0AFD "૽" Gujarati Sign Three-Dot Nukta Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0AFD "૽" Gujarati Sign Three-Dot Nukta Above is a diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to modify the sound of a base consonant, typically indicating a borrowed or foreign phonetic influence not native to standard Gujarati. It consists of three distinct dots arranged in a triangular or horizontal pattern placed above a character, functioning similarly to a nukta but with a specific triple-dot form. This sign is part of the Unicode standard to support precise representation of Gujarati text in digital environments, particularly for transliterating words from other languages or for scholarly and religious transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AFD |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Gujarati Sign Three-Dot Nukta Above |
| 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 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AFD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AFD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0afd |