U+0C5D "ౝ" Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ౝ
U+0C5D "ౝ" Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu is a rare and archaic character from the Telugu script used primarily in historical or liturgical contexts rather than in modern standard Telugu writing. It represents a specific form of the consonant "na" with a pullu or diacritic mark that historically may have indicated a special phonetic variation or gemination, though its exact function in ancient inscriptions or manuscripts is not universally agreed upon by scholars. In contemporary digital and font systems, this character is considered a historic letter and is not commonly used in everyday communication, remaining mostly relevant for specialized linguistic research or the accurate encoding of historical Telugu texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C5D |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ౝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ౝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB1 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c5d |