U+A8C5 "ꣅ" Saurashtra Sign Candrabindu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꣅ
U+A8C5 "ꣅ" Saurashtra Sign Candrabindu is a diacritical mark used in the Saurashtra script, which is employed for writing the Saurashtra language primarily in Tamil Nadu, India. This sign, a combination of a crescent moon shape (candra) and a dot (bindu), indicates nasalization or a nasalized vowel sound in the syllable above which it is placed. It functions similarly to the candrabindu diacritic in other Brahmi-derived scripts, modifying the vowel's pronunciation by adding a distinctly nasal quality, though its specific usage follows the orthographic conventions of the Saurashtra writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8C5 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Saurashtra Sign Candrabindu |
| Block | Saurashtra |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8C5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8C5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8c5 |