U+A8FF "ꣿ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꣿ
U+A8FF "ꣿ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ay is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a distinct vowel sound, specifically an elongated or specialized form of the vowel "ai," as part of the extended Devanagari block for writing languages such as Sanskrit or other Indic languages in scholarly or liturgical contexts. This character is visually rendered as a curved mark above the consonant it modifies, and its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate digital representation and text processing for linguistic research and religious texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A8FF |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Vowel Sign Ay |
| Block | Devanagari Extended |
| 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 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA8FF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A8FF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua8ff |