U+0C3C "఼" Telugu Sign Nukta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
఼
U+0C3C "఼" Telugu Sign Nukta is a combining diacritical mark used in the Telugu script to modify the sound of a base consonant, typically representing borrowed or non-native phonemes from languages such as Urdu, Persian, or English. It appears as a small dot or circle placed below the consonant, allowing the Telugu writing system to accurately represent sounds that do not occur naturally in pure Telugu vocabulary. This character is essential for transliterating foreign words and names while preserving their original pronunciation, and it may also be used in certain regional or scholarly contexts to denote subtle phonetic distinctions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C3C |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Telugu Sign Nukta |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c3c |