What ᳝ means
It marks dependent svarita, a Vedic recitation pitch.
The Kāṭhaka and Paippalāda traditions use it for dependent svarita. Paippalāda also uses it for ekaśruti, a single-pitch reading after independent svarita. A Kashmir Paippalāda manuscript found in 1873 has some accent marks; Paippalāda manuscripts from Odisha found in 1959 have none.
In Devanagari it is a diamond centered below its syllable, distinct from a generic underdot or nukta. It follows the syllable as a combining mark.
Part of the collection
Don't confuse it with
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Combining Dot Below
A generic dot-under mark; UTS #39 maps the Vedic tone dot to the same skeleton, so it looks alike in most fonts.
Hebrew Point Hiriq
A dot under a letter, same skeleton per UTS #39; seen in Hebrew text rather than Vedic.
Devanagari Sign Nukta
A dot under a consonant, same skeleton per UTS #39; appears in Hindi and Sanskrit text beside Vedic marks.
Related characters
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Vedic Tone Yajurvedic Kathaka Independent Svarita
Another Kāṭhaka tone sign: it marks independent svarita, while this one marks the dependent form.
Vedic Tone Kathaka Anudatta
An anudātta sign in the same Kāṭhaka tone notation, marking a different pitch pattern.
Vedic Tone Two Dots Below
Another Vedic tone mark, written with two dots below; it belongs to the same notation but is distinct.
Questions people ask
1Is this just an ordinary underdot?
No. A generic underdot does not mark Vedic pitch, and a Devanagari nukta is a separate letter-modifying mark.
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How to type or find ᳝
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- Vedic accent · svarita · Yajurveda · Paippalāda · Kāṭhaka · underdot
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
᳝CSS
\1CDDCombining input
Enter it after the syllable it marks; this combining mark attaches to the preceding text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
᳝
HTML hex
᳝
CSS content
content: "\1CDD";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%B3%9D
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.