U+0C3D "ఽ" Telugu Sign Avagraha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఽ
U+0C3D "ఽ" Telugu Sign Avagraha is a diacritical mark used in the Telugu script to indicate the elision or suppression of a vowel, typically the initial vowel of a word when it is contracted or omitted due to euphonic combination, such as in poetic or sandhi contexts. It resembles a small curved stroke placed above the line and functions similarly to the avagraha sign found in other Brahmi-derived scripts, signaling a phonetic shortening rather than representing an independent sound. In modern usage, it is primarily encountered in classical literature, religious texts, and formal linguistic transcriptions to preserve accurate pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C3D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Telugu Sign Avagraha |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C3D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C3D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c3d |