U+1CF5 "ᳵ" Vedic Sign Jihvamuliya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᳵ
U+1CF5 "ᳵ" Vedic Sign Jihvamuliya is a diacritical mark used in the notation of ancient Sanskrit texts, specifically within the Rigvedic tradition, to indicate a voiceless velar fricative sound that occurs as a positional variant of the visarga before the velar consonants /k/ and /kh/. This sign forms part of a specialized set of phonetic markers employed in Vedic accents and recitation practices, helping to preserve the precise pronunciation of sacred hymns.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1CF5 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Vedic Sign Jihvamuliya |
| Block | Vedic Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᳵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᳵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB3 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1CF5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001CF5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1cf5 |
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 |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Consonant With Stacker |
| 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 |