U+0C04 "ఄ" Telugu Sign Combining Anusvara Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఄ
U+0C04 "ఄ" Telugu Sign Combining Anusvara Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Telugu script to indicate an anusvara, a type of nasalization. It is placed above the base character it modifies, altering the pronunciation by adding a nasal sound, and is distinct from other similar marks because of its specific combining position. This character is part of the Telugu block in Unicode and is typically employed in scholarly or precise orthographic contexts to represent certain Sanskrit-derived nasal sounds in Telugu writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C04 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Telugu Sign Combining Anusvara 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c04 |