What ᳭ means
Tiryak marks a nasal detail in Vedic Sanskrit recitation. It is a combining sign used in Vedic notation for nasal sounds. Its reading depends on the surrounding character sequence and the recitation tradition.
Ancient Vedic phonetic teaching distinguished nasalized vowels, the nasal sound called anusvāra, and other nasal forms. Written traditions preserved those details with different signs; Tiryak represents a graphic variant of a nasal mark found in manuscripts and print.
How is Tiryak different from a virama?
It resembles a virama but does a different job. The Devanagari virama (्) suppresses a consonant’s inherent vowel; Tiryak renders variants of Vedic nasal marks. The visual resemblance does not make the signs interchangeable.
How do I type the Vedic Tiryak mark?
Insert it after the full base sequence in a Unicode-aware Vedic editor. As a combining mark, its placement depends on the complete character sequence. If it looks missing or misplaced, check the font’s Vedic mark support and the text sequence before changing the character.
A specialist mark for Vedic text and recitation; it is not a general-purpose accent.
Do not substitute the Devanagari virama: that mark suppresses a consonant’s vowel.
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Questions people ask
1Why does Vedic Sign Tiryak look wrong in my font?
It can. Tiryak is a combining mark, so its display depends on the font’s Vedic mark support and the complete sequence around it.
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How to type or find ᳭
- Also called
- vaidika tiryak · tiryak
- Search it as
- vaidika · anusvāra · anunāsika · candrabindu · gomukha · Vedic nasalization · virama
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
᳭\1CEDCodes and encoding1 code points
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