U+0CBD "ಽ" Kannada Sign Avagraha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಽ
U+0CBD "ಽ" Kannada Sign Avagraha is a diacritic mark used primarily in the Kannada script to denote the elision or omission of a vowel, specifically the inherent "a" sound, at the end of a word, often occurring in sandhi or compound word formations. It appears as a superscript curved symbol placed above the preceding consonant letter. While its usage in modern everyday Kannada writing is relatively rare, it is historically and linguistically significant in classical texts and formal transliterations, where it functions similarly to an apostrophe in other scripts, indicating a contraction or fusion of sounds between adjacent words or syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CBD |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Kannada Sign Avagraha |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಽ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಽ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xBD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CBD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CBD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cbd |