U+1CD8 "᳘" Vedic Tone Candra Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳘
U+1CD8 "᳘" Vedic Tone Candra Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a specific tonal accent in the recitation of Vedic Sanskrit texts. It appears below a character and indicates a particular melodic pitch pattern, often associated with the pronunciation of syllables in the Samaveda or other ancient Vedic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CD8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Tone Candra Below |
| 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cd8 |
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 |
| 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 |