U+1CD5 "᳕" Vedic Tone Yajurvedic Aggravated Independent Svarita Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CD5 "᳕" Vedic Tone Yajurvedic Aggravated Independent Svarita is a diacritical mark used in the ancient Indian text tradition of the Yajurveda, specifically to denote an intensified or "aggravated" form of the independent svarita pitch accent. This tone indicates a heightened or emphatic melodic contour that stands alone rather than being a product of a preceding pitch change, and it is part of a complex system of tonal markings employed by scribes to preserve the precise oral recitation of Vedic hymns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CD5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Tone Yajurvedic Aggravated Independent Svarita |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CD5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CD5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cd5 |
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 Newa Telugu Tirhuta |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Cantillation Mark |
| Indic Positional Category | Bottom |
| 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 |