What ॶ means
It gives Kashmiri ue its own standalone letter. The vowel is usually transcribed /ɨ/: raise the tongue near the middle of the mouth and keep the lips unrounded. In Devanagari spelling, ॶ stands without a consonant base; ॖ attaches the vowel to a consonant, while ॷ is its long independent partner. The ordinary Devanagari letters उ and ऊ represent different u vowels.
Kashmiri has also been written in Perso-Arabic and Sharada, a historical script. ॶ belongs to the Devanagari spelling tradition for Kashmiri.
Kashmiri Devanagari reforms came in 1995 and 2002, followed by a further revision in 2009. A 2009 Unicode proposal for Kashmiri additions grouped ॶ with its dependent vowel sign and long form.
How do I type ॶ in Kashmiri Devanagari?
Use a Kashmiri-specific Devanagari keyboard layout. The m17n Kashmiri InScript mapping assigns AltGr + G to ॶ and gives ॖ and ॷ separate entries.
For the independent vowel, use the encoded character ॶ itself. Even if अ + ॖ looks similar on screen, Unicode guidance for Kashmiri favors the independent character.
It belongs to Kashmiri written in Devanagari, so its use signals that language-and-script context.
Don't confuse it with
3Questions people ask
2Can I write ॶ as अ plus ॖ?
No. Use ॶ for the independent Kashmiri vowel; Unicode guidance does not recommend the visually similar sequence अ + ॖ.
Is ॶ used in Hindi?
Not in standard Hindi spelling. As of 2026-09-05, Unicode’s Devanagari documentation associates it with Kashmiri; Hindi uses उ and ऊ for its ordinary short and long u vowels.
How to type ॶ
ॶ\0976Codes and encoding1 code points
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