U+1CEC "ᳬ" Vedic Sign Anusvara Vamagomukha with Tail Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CEC "ᳬ" Vedic Sign Anusvara Vamagomukha with Tail is a diacritical mark used in the Vedic Sanskrit tradition to denote a specific phonetic variant of the anusvara, or nasalization, that occurs in the recitation of the Samaveda and other ancient texts. Its name, Vamagomukha, meaning "left-facing cow face," describes its distinctive visual form in certain scripts, and the "tail" refers to a curved extension on its right side. This sign guides the precise pronunciation of nasal sounds in a particular textual environment, contributing to the meticulous oral preservation of Vedic hymns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CEC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Anusvara Vamagomukha with Tail |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CEC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CEC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cec |