U+A8F6 "ꣶ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Three Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꣶ
U+A8F6 "ꣶ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Three is a diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script, specifically designed for transcribing Southeast Asian languages such as Sanskrit, Pali, and some Dravidian languages. It represents a variant of the candrabindu nasalization sign, distinguished by a triple dot configuration above a character, indicating a specific nasalized vowel sound that differs from the standard single candrabindu. This character is encoded in the Unicode block for Devanagari Extended, which supports additional scholarly and liturgical texts, and it helps maintain precise phonetic distinctions in ancient manuscripts and modern linguistic studies.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8F6 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Three |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8F6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8F6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8f6 |