U+1CF2 "ᳲ" Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᳲ
U+1CF2 "ᳲ" Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga is a notation used in the ancient Indian textual tradition of the Vedas to represent a half-length visarga, a breathy voiceless glottal fricative sound that is shorter in duration than the full visarga. This sign appears in Vedic manuscripts and printed texts as a diacritical mark to guide proper pronunciation and chanting of sacred hymns according to the phonetic rules of the Vedas. It is part of the Vedic Extensions block within Unicode, which was added to support the accurate digital representation of these liturgical texts and their complex orthographic features.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CF2 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳲ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳲ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0xB2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CF2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CF2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cf2 |
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 | Bengali Devanagari Grantha Kannada Malayalam Nandinagari Oriya Sinhala Telugu Tirhuta Tulu Tigalari |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Consonant Dead |
| 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 |