What ꣩ means
Namana is a bend or sinking in the voice. In Sāmagāna, ꣩ attaches that instruction to the syllable being sung.
A 2009 proposal cites it in Dandekar’s edited Śrauta-kośa, a reference work on Vedic ritual.
Specialist notation for Sāmavedic singing.
Don't confuse it with
1Questions people ask
1Why does ꣩ look empty?
The mark follows its base syllable in text and renders over it. Without a supported font or base, it may look blank.
How to type ꣩
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType A8E9, then Alt+X to get ꣩.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “combining devanagari digit nine”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType a8e9, then Enter or Space.
HTML
꣩CSS
\A8E9How to type ꣩
Use a Unicode character map to find `A8E9`. The documented Sāmavedic layout’s `9=` yields ꣢꣫ instead.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
꣩
HTML hex
꣩
CSS content
content: "\A8E9";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A3%A9
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.