U+1CE5 "᳥" Vedic Sign Visarga Anudatta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᳥
U+1CE5 "᳥" Vedic Sign Visarga Anudatta is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a specific tonal accent in Vedic Sanskrit chanting. It denotes a visarga, or a voiceless breathy release of sound, that carries the anudatta accent, which is the lowest pitch tone in the traditional Vedic recitation system. This character is part of the Vedic Extensions block of Unicode and is employed primarily in scholarly and liturgical texts to preserve the correct phonetic and tonal articulation of ancient hymns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CE5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Visarga Anudatta |
| 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 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ce5 |