U+1CDB "᳛" Vedic Tone Triple Svarita Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳛
U+1CDB "᳛" Vedic Tone Triple Svarita is a diacritical mark used in the ancient Indian textual tradition of the Vedas, specifically within the phonetic notation system known as the *svarita* accents. This particular tone represents a prolonged or triple-length svarita, indicating a specific melodic rise and fall in pitch applied to a syllable during the chanting of Vedic hymns. It is part of the Vedic Extensions block in Unicode, which was included to support the precise liturgical recitation and transcription of sacred texts, ensuring that the tonal nuances critical to preserving the oral tradition are accurately represented in digital form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CDB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Tone Triple Svarita |
| 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CDB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CDB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cdb |