What ꣵ means
ꣵ marks a nasalized vowel held for two mora. A mora is one unit of vowel timing. The sign tells a reciter to preserve both the nasal quality and the length: two timing units.
Ancient Vedic phonetic treatises and medieval śikṣā manuals (guides to pronunciation and recitation) describe distinct nasal lengths. A proposal reproduces a manuscript example identified as Houghton Ms. Indic 62, folio 4 recto (the front of leaf 4). It encodes ꣵ as one precomposed character because combining a candrabindu with a separate digit could put the parts in the wrong positions.
Specialized Vedic recitation notation for nasal length, not a general-purpose candrabindu.
Do not read it as the plain candrabindu: ꣵ also signals two-mora length.
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Who writes ꣵ
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꣵ appear as a box?
The font or text renderer lacks this specialized glyph. Use a font that includes Devanagari Extended; the intended appearance relies on a precomposed glyph.
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How to type or find ꣵ
- Also called
- vaidika anusvaara candrabindu sa-dvi
- Search it as
- candrabindu 2 · Vedic candrabindu · Vaidika anusvaara · sa-dvi · dvimaatra anusvara
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꣵ\A8F5Codes and encoding1 code points
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