U+A9B3 "꦳" Javanese Sign Cecak Telu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
꦳
U+A9B3 "꦳" Javanese Sign Cecak Telu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Javanese script to indicate a specific vowel or sound modification, primarily functioning to denote the breathing or aspiration associated with certain consonants, particularly in loanwords from Arabic or Sanskrit. Its name "Cecak Telu" literally means "three dots" in Javanese, referring to its visual appearance of three small dots arranged in a triangle above or attached to a base character, and it plays a crucial role in accurately representing the phonetic nuances of the Javanese language in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9B3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Javanese Sign Cecak Telu |
| Block | Javanese |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Nukta |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꦳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꦳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA6 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9B3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9B3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9b3 |