U+0C82 "ಂ" Kannada Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಂ
U+0C82 "ಂ" Kannada Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a nasalization or a homorganic nasal sound following a vowel. It visually appears as a dot above the baseline and modifies the pronunciation of the preceding vowel, often transliterated as an "m" or "n" depending on the following consonant. This sign is integral to the phonetic and orthographic system of Kannada, distinguishing between words that would otherwise be ambiguous and ensuring accurate representation of nasal consonants in writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C82 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c82 |