U+1CE0 "" Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent Svarita Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

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U+1CE0 "" Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent Svarita is a diacritical mark used in the ancient oral tradition of the Rigveda, specifically within the Kashmiri recension, to denote an independent or standalone svarita pitch accent. Unlike the more common dependent svarita, which arises from the conjunction of udatta and anudatta syllables, this independent svarita appears without a preceding udatta and indicates a distinct melodic contour in the chanting of Vedic hymns, serving as a crucial phonetic mark for preserving the precise intonation of sacred texts.

General Properties

Code Point
U+1CE0
Name
Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent Svarita

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
᳠
HTML Hex Encoding
᳠
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xB3 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1CE0
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001CE0
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1ce0