U+1CD4 "᳔" Vedic Sign Yajurvedic Midline Svarita Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳔
U+1CD4 "᳔" Vedic Sign Yajurvedic Midline Svarita is a diacritical mark used in the ancient text of the Yajurveda, one of the four canonical Vedas of Hinduism, to denote a specific tonal accent known as the svarita. This sign appears as a short vertical line placed above the midline of a syllable within the Devanagari script, indicating a particular pitch or melodic contour required for the correct oral recitation of Vedic hymns. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital representations of these sacred texts can preserve the precise phonetic and prosodic details essential for traditional chanting.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CD4 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Yajurvedic Midline Svarita |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Overlay |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CD4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CD4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cd4 |