U+1CD0 "᳐" Vedic Tone Karshana Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CD0 "᳐" Vedic Tone Karshana is a diacritical mark used in the ancient Indian text tradition of the Vedas, specifically within the Samaveda and other related scriptures that employ complex tonal accents for correct chanting. This character represents a specific high-rising or drawn out tone, known in Sanskrit as karshana, which indicates a prolonged or emphatic intonation on a syllable, helping to preserve the precise melodic and phonetic delivery of sacred hymns. As part of the Vedic Extensions block of Unicode, it is encoded to allow digital representation and study of these historically significant tonal markers, which are distinct from the standard Devanagari script and crucial for authentic liturgical recitation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CD0 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Tone Karshana |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CD0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CD0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cd0 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Joining Type | Transparent |
| Line Break | Combining Mark |
| Case Ignorable | Yes |
| Script | Inherited |
| Script Extensions | Bengali Devanagari Grantha Kannada |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Cantillation Mark |
| Indic Positional Category | Top |
| Indic Conjunct Break | Extend |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Diacritic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Extend | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Extend |
| Word Break | Extend |
| Sentence Break | Extend |