What ॵ means
Enter its Unicode escape \u0975 or HTML reference ॵ.
Keep it as one character: ॵ is an independent vowel letter. ॏ is a dependent sign written after a consonant, not a piece for assembling ॵ.
What sound does ॵ represent?
Its vowel value depends on the language.
In Kashmiri Devanagari, ॵ marks an open, rounded “aw” vowel, commonly transcribed /ɔ/ in the International Phonetic Alphabet. In Bhojpuri, Magahi, and Maithili spelling, it belongs to the short-AU vowel set; the exact value depends on the language.
Hoernle’s 1880 grammar describes the letter’s role in preserving Bihari short-vowel distinctions that ordinary Devanagari spelling blurred. A 2009 Kashmiri Devanagari proposal assigned ॵ an explicit open, rounded “aw” value; an older spelling had used व as a stand-in.
A specialist vowel spelling used in particular Devanagari orthographies.
Do not swap it with औ; their vowel values can differ.
What it means when someone sends it to you
2 readingsDon't confuse it with
2Questions people ask
1Why does ॵ 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.
How to type ॵ
ॵ\0975Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.