U+0C00 "ఀ" Telugu Sign Combining Candrabindu Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఀ
U+0C00 "ఀ" Telugu Sign Combining Candrabindu Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Telugu script, primarily in transliteration or scholarly contexts to represent a nasalization or an anusvara-like sound that appears above the base character. It visually resembles a small crescent or dot above the letter, and it is designed to attach to a preceding consonant or vowel sign. This character is part of the Telugu block in Unicode and is intended for use in representing Sanskrit or other loanwords where precise phonetic nasalization is required, though it is not commonly found in standard modern Telugu writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C00 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Telugu Sign Combining Candrabindu Above |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c00 |