U+11C3C "ð‘°¼" Bhaiksuki Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11C3C "ð‘°¼" Bhaiksuki Sign Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Bhaiksuki script, an ancient Brahmi-derived writing system primarily employed for manuscripts of Buddhist texts in regions of historical India and surrounding areas. This sign indicates a nasalization or a specific modification of the vowel sound it accompanies, often corresponding to a nasalized vowel or a homorganic nasal stop following the vowel. It appears as a small crescent-like symbol with a dot, placed above a base character, and its presence changes the phonetic value of the syllable, reflecting the script's sophisticated phonological representation in liturgical and scholarly contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11C3C |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Bhaiksuki Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Bhaiksuki |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑰼 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑰼 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB0 0xBC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDC3C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011C3C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udc3c |