U+0C80 "ಀ" Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0C80 "ಀ" Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to indicate a nasalization of the vowel sound to which it is attached, functioning as a spacing or independent form of the candrabindu rather than a combining mark. It is positioned above the base character and is distinct from the more common combining candrabindu in that it occupies its own character width, influencing the layout and spacing of the text. This character is part of the Kannada block in Unicode and is employed in certain historical or specialized contexts for precise representation of nasalized vowels in Kannada phonetics.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C80 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Kannada Sign Spacing Candrabindu |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C80 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C80 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c80 |