U+1CE0 "᳠" Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent Svarita Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳠
U+1CE0 "᳠" Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent Svarita is a diacritical mark used in the ancient oral tradition of the Rigveda, specifically within the Kashmiri recension, to denote an independent or standalone svarita pitch accent. Unlike the more common dependent svarita, which arises from the conjunction of udatta and anudatta syllables, this independent svarita appears without a preceding udatta and indicates a distinct melodic contour in the chanting of Vedic hymns, serving as a crucial phonetic mark for preserving the precise intonation of sacred texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE0 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent 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 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CE0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CE0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ce0 |