U+0D01 "ഁ" Malayalam Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഁ
U+0D01 "ഁ" Malayalam Sign Candrabindu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent a nasalization or an anusvara-like sound, often influencing the vowel that precedes it. It appears as a small dot above a crescent or a similar crescent-shaped mark above the base character, and its primary function is to modify the phonetic value of a syllable, typically indicating a nasalized pronunciation. This sign is distinct from the regular anusvara and is employed in specific orthographic contexts within the Malayalam writing system to ensure accurate representation of certain Sanskrit-derived words or particular native terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D01 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ഁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ഁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D01 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D01 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d01 |