U+1CE3 "᳣" Vedic Sign Visarga Udatta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳣
U+1CE3 "᳣" Vedic Sign Visarga Udatta is a diacritical mark used in the Vedic Sanskrit tradition to denote a specific tonal accent on a visarga, which is a final voiceless breathy sound represented in the Devanagari script. This sign indicates that the visarga is pronounced with an udatta, or high pitch, as part of the complex system of Vedic chanting and recitation. It appears as a small superscript marker attached to the visarga character, helping to preserve the precise phonetic and melodic nuances of ancient scriptures.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Visarga Udatta |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ce3 |