U+1CDD "᳝" Vedic Tone Dot Below Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳝
U+1CDD "᳝" Vedic Tone Dot Below is a combining diacritical mark used in the Vedic Sanskrit tradition to denote a specific tone or musical accent, typically placed beneath a base character to indicate a particular pitch or melodic contour in the recitation of the Vedas. This glyph forms part of the Vedic Extensions block, which was added to the Unicode standard to support the accurate digital representation of ancient Indic texts that require precise tonal notation. Its function is distinct from ordinary punctuation or vowel markers, as it directly influences the chanting's rhythm and meaning, preserving oral traditions that have been transmitted for millennia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CDD |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Tone Dot 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 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cdd |