U+1CEB "ᳫ" Vedic Sign Anusvara Vamagomukha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CEB "ᳫ" Vedic Sign Anusvara Vamagomukha is a diacritical mark used in the Vedic Sanskrit textual tradition, specifically within the Yajurveda recensions. It is appended to syllables to denote a nasalized pronunciation, but its name "Vamagomukha" refers to the shape of the sign, which resembles a cow's mouth turned to the left, a description rooted in ancient phonetic treatises. This character belongs to the Vedic Extensions Unicode block and serves as a specialized orthographic tool for preserving the precise chanting and phonological rules of the Vedas.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CEB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Anusvara Vamagomukha |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CEB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CEB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1ceb |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Common |
| Script Extensions | Devanagari Newa |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Alphabetic letter |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |