U+A8F7 "ꣷ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Avagraha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꣷ
U+A8F7 "ꣷ" Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Avagraha is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to indicate a nasalized vowel sound that also involves an elision or hiatus. It functions as a variant of the standard candrabindu (a dot above a crescent) but is specifically paired with the avagraha, which typically marks the contraction or omission of a vowel in Sanskrit and related languages. This sign is employed in certain orthographic traditions to represent a precise phonetic nuance where nasalization occurs across a syllable boundary, often in Vedic or classical texts, and it is classified under the Devanagari Extended Unicode block for specialized script usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8F7 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Devanagari Sign Candrabindu Avagraha |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꣷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꣷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA3 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8F7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8F7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8f7 |