U+1CE0 "᳠" Vedic Tone Rigvedic Kashmiri Independent Svarita Unicode Character
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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.
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Vedic Tone Atharvavedic Independent Svarita
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Devanagari Sharada