U+A8F5 "ꣵ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Two Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꣵ
U+A8F5 "ꣵ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Two is a combining diacritical mark used in the extended Devanagari script to indicate a specific type of nasalization, often representing a doubled or prolonged nasal resonance that modifies the vowel of a syllable. This character appears primarily in historical or liturgical texts, such as those for Sanskrit or Vedic recitation, where precise phonetic articulation is important. It visually resembles the standard candrabindu (a crescent with a dot) but features two dots instead of one, distinguishing its phonetic function. As part of the Devanagari Extended Unicode block, it supports accurate digital representation of ancient and scholarly manuscripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8F5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Two |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣵ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣵ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0xB5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8F5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8F5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8f5 |