U+0AFE "૾" Gujarati Sign Circle Nukta Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
૾
U+0AFE "૾" Gujarati Sign Circle Nukta Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Gujarati script to modify the pronunciation of a base consonant or vowel, typically indicating a nasalization or a specific phonetic nuance derived from Sanskrit or other loanwords. It appears as a small hollow circle positioned above the character it accompanies, functioning similarly to the standard nukta but distinguished by its circular shape. This sign is part of the Gujarati Unicode block and supports the accurate representation of scholarly or liturgical texts where precise orthographic details are required.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AFE |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Gujarati Sign Circle 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 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AFE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AFE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0afe |