U+1CF2 "ᳲ" Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1CF2 "ᳲ" Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga is a notation used in the ancient Indian textual tradition of the Vedas to represent a half-length visarga, a breathy voiceless glottal fricative sound that is shorter in duration than the full visarga. This sign appears in Vedic manuscripts and printed texts as a diacritical mark to guide proper pronunciation and chanting of sacred hymns according to the phonetic rules of the Vedas. It is part of the Vedic Extensions block within Unicode, which was added to support the accurate digital representation of these liturgical texts and their complex orthographic features.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1CF2
Name
Vedic Sign Ardhavisarga
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᳲ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᳲ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xB3 0xB2
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1CF2
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001CF2
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1cf2
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Bengali Devanagari Grantha Kannada Malayalam Nandinagari Oriya Sinhala Telugu Tirhuta Tulu Tigalari