U+1CE2 "᳢" Vedic Sign Visarga Svarita Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CE2 "᳢" Vedic Sign Visarga Svarita is a diacritical mark used in the Vedic Sanskrit tradition to indicate a specific tonal or pitch accent over a visarga, which itself represents a voiceless breath-like sound. This sign appears in ancient Vedic texts, such as the Rigveda and Samaveda, where precise intonation and chanting rules are critical; it modifies the visarga to carry a svarita, or "sounding," accent, typically denoting a combination of a preceding high pitch and a following lower pitch. The character is part of the Vedic Extensions block of Unicode, aiding in the accurate digital preservation and rendering of these sacred scriptures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE2 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Visarga Svarita |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Overlay |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ce2 |