U+0C5D "ౝ" Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0C5D "ౝ" Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu is a rare and archaic character from the Telugu script used primarily in historical or liturgical contexts rather than in modern standard Telugu writing. It represents a specific form of the consonant "na" with a pullu or diacritic mark that historically may have indicated a special phonetic variation or gemination, though its exact function in ancient inscriptions or manuscripts is not universally agreed upon by scholars. In contemporary digital and font systems, this character is considered a historic letter and is not commonly used in everyday communication, remaining mostly relevant for specialized linguistic research or the accurate encoding of historical Telugu texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0C5D
Name
Telugu Letter Nakaara Pollu
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ౝ
HTML Hex Encoding
ౝ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xB1 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0C5D
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000C5D
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0c5d
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Telugu