U+0B02 "ଂ" Oriya Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B02 "ଂ" Oriya Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Oriya script, representing a nasalization or a homorganic nasal sound that follows a vowel or consonant within a syllable. It is not an independent letter but is typically placed above the character it modifies to indicate that the sound is pronounced with airflow through the nose, similar to the anusvara diacritic found in other Brahmi-derived scripts of South Asia. In the Oriya language, it helps distinguish word meanings and is essential for accurate pronunciation and writing in both modern and literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B02 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b02 |