U+1CF3 "ᳳ" Vedic Sign Rotated Ardhavisarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1CF3 "ᳳ" Vedic Sign Rotated Ardhavisarga is a diacritical mark used in the Vedic Sanskrit tradition to indicate a specific phonetic modification of the visarga, a breathy sound after a vowel. Unlike the standard visarga, which is represented by two vertical dots, the rotated ardhavisarga appears as a single dot or small circle rotated at an angle, and it is employed in certain ancient texts to denote a fricative-like articulation that occurs in place of a full visarga under particular phonological conditions. This character belongs to the Vedic Extensions block of Unicode and is primarily of interest to scholars specializing in the accurate digital representation and study of Vedic manuscripts and their intricate pronunciation rules.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CF3 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Rotated Ardhavisarga |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CF3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CF3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cf3 |
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 Grantha |
| 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 |