U+A8FF "ꣿ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A8FF "ꣿ" Devanagari Vowel Sign Ay is a combining diacritical mark used in the Devanagari script to represent a distinct vowel sound, specifically an elongated or specialized form of the vowel "ai," as part of the extended Devanagari block for writing languages such as Sanskrit or other Indic languages in scholarly or liturgical contexts. This character is visually rendered as a curved mark above the consonant it modifies, and its inclusion in Unicode facilitates accurate digital representation and text processing for linguistic research and religious texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A8FF
Name
Devanagari Vowel Sign Ay
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꣿ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꣿ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA3 0xBF
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA8FF
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A8FF
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua8ff
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Devanagari