U+A8EB "꣫" Combining Devanagari Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꣫
U+A8EB "꣫" Combining Devanagari Letter U is a combining diacritic mark used in the Devanagari script to represent the vowel sound "u" as a distinct modifying sign attached to a base consonant character. It belongs to the Devanagari Extended block and is intended for scholarly transliteration or specialized linguistic notation, particularly for representing Vedic or other historical text variants where the independent vowel form is not used. As a combining character, it does not stand alone but is positioned visually below the consonant it modifies, altering the inherent vowel sound from a default "a" to the short "u" sound, much like the standard Devanagari vowel sign for "u" but within a dedicated encoding space for extended usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8EB |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Combining Devanagari Letter U |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8EB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8EB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8eb |