What ॲ means
It writes Marathi /æ/, as in English “bat.” By itself, ॲ is a vowel letter; after a consonant, the mark ॅ forms spellings such as कॅ and बॅट.
The comparable letter in Hindi materials is ऍ. An older Kashmiri Devanagari convention used ॲ for a different vowel, /ə/; a revision in 2009 assigned that value to ॳ. A Marathi learner's book listed ॲ among the vowels in 2002, and a Unicode proposal in 2007 argued for encoding it as one character rather than as अ ॅ.
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Who writes ॲ
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Don't confuse it with
1अॅ अॅ is अ followed by ॅ, so it contains two characters. ॲ is one character, even when the two forms look alike.
Related characters
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Questions people ask
1Why does ॲ 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 ॲ
- Search it as
- ॲ · candra a · Marathi ॲ · Marathi æ · Marathi bat spelling
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ॲ\0972Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.