What ꣢ means
A Sāmavedic pitch mark, not a number.
Sāmaveda is a Vedic hymn collection. In recitation, ꣢ marks independent svarita—a syllable's pitch falling from high to low. In Sāmagāna, the sung form, it marks dvitīya, the second tone. It follows the marked syllable and appears above it.
This inherited notation belongs to the Kauthuma and Rāṇāyanīya Sāmaveda traditions. A 2007 proposal describes each small digit as a mark attached to one syllable; the Jaiminīya branch uses another system for sung phrases.
Specialist Sāmaveda notation.
Not the ordinary numeral २.
Part of the collection
Who writes ꣢
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What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsIndependent svarita: falling pitch.
Don't confuse it with
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꣢ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ꣢
- Search it as
- svarita · Sāmagāna
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
꣢\A8E2Codes and encoding1 code points
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