What 𑍰 means
It marks a special way to sing a syllable. In Sāmaveda Gāna—the sung tradition of the Sāmaveda, a Vedic sacred text—it sits over a syllable to mark abhigita, a way to sing its pitch.
Grantha descends from Brahmi. Pallava Grantha appears in inscriptions from 300–650 CE; the script wrote Sanskrit, Vedic texts, and Manipravalam, a Tamil–Sanskrit literary mix. Malayalam descends from Grantha.
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1Questions 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
- abhigita · abhigita svara · samaveda · sama veda · vedic chant notation · grantha chant mark
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
𑍰CSS
\11370Unicode hex input
In an editor that accepts hex code points, enter U11370 after the Grantha syllable it marks.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𑍰
HTML hex
𑍰
CSS content
content: "\11370";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%91%8D%B0
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On screen
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Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.