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Unicode Standard, Version 5.2 Devanagari Range: 0900–097F This file contains an excerpt from the character code tables and list of character names for The Unicode Standard, Version 5.2. This file may be changed at any time without notice to reflect errata or other updates to the Unicode Standard. See http://www.unicode.org/errata/ for an up-to-date list of errata. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/ for access to a complete list of the latest character code charts. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-5.2/ for charts showing only the characters added in Unicode 5.2. See http://www.unicode.org/Public/5.2.0/charts/ for a complete archived file of character code charts for Unicode 5.2. Disclaimer These charts are provided as the online reference to the character contents of the Unicode Standard, Version 5.2 but do not provide all the information needed to fully support individual scripts using the Unicode Standard. For a complete understanding of the use of the characters contained in this file, please consult the appropriate sections of The Unicode Standard, Version 5.2, online at http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/, as well as Unicode Standard Annexes #9, #11, #14, #15, #24, #29, #31, #34, #38, #41, #42, and #44, the other Unicode Technical Reports and Standards, and the Unicode Character Database, which are available online. See http://www.unicode.org/ucd/ and http://www.unicode.org/reports/ A thorough understanding of the information contained in these additional sources is required for a successful implementation. Fonts The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive. Considerable variation is to be expected in actual fonts. The particular fonts used in these charts were provided to the Unicode Consortium by a number of different font designers, who own the rights to the fonts. See http://www.unicode.org/charts/fonts.html for a list. Terms of Use You may freely use these code charts for personal or internal business uses only. You may not incorporate them either wholly or in part into any product or publication, or otherwise distribute them without express written permission from the Unicode Consortium. However, you may provide links to these charts. The fonts and font data used in production of these code charts may NOT be extracted, or used in any other way in any product or publication, without permission or license granted by the typeface owner(s). The Unicode Consortium is not liable for errors or omissions in this file or the standard itself. Information on characters added to the Unicode Standard since the publication of the most recent version of the Unicode Standard, as well as on characters currently being considered for addition to the Unicode Standard can be found on the Unicode web site. See http://www.unicode.org/pending/pending.html and http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html. Copyright © 1991-2009 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. 0900 Devanagari 097F 090 091 092 093 094 095 096 097 0 $Ò q $¬ º Ç ¥ 0900 0910 0920 0930 0940 0950 0960 0970 1 $b r $­ $» È Ð 0901 0911 0921 0931 0941 0951 0961 0971 2 $c s $® $¼ $É Ñ 0902 0912 0922 0932 0942 0952 0962 0972 3 $d t $¯ $½ $Ê 0903 0913 0923 0933 0943 0953 0963 4 e u $° $¾ ¦ 0904 0914 0924 0934 0944 0954 0964 5 f v $± $Ô § 0905 0915 0925 0935 0945 0955 0965 6 g w $² 0906 0916 0926 0936 0946 0966 7 h x $³ 0907 0917 0927 0937 0947 0967 8 i y $´ ¿ 0908 0918 0928 0938 0948 0958 0968 9 j z $µ À Õ 0909 0919 0929 0939 0949 0959 0969 0979 A k { $¶ Á Ö 090A 091A 092A 094A 095A 096A 097A B l | $· Â Ì 090B 091B 092B 094B 095B 096B 097B C m } $¨ $¸ Ã ¡ Í 090C 091C 092C 093C 094C 095C 096C 097C D n ~ © $¹ Ä ¢ Î 090D 091D 092D 093D 094D 095D 096D 097D E o $ª $Ó Å £ Ï 090E 091E 092E 093E 094E 095E 096E 097E F p $« Æ ¤ Ë 090F 091F 092F 093F 095F 096F 097F The Unicode Standard 5.2, Copyright © 1991-2009 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. 67 0900 Devanagari 0951 Various signs 0931 DEVANAGARI LETTER RRA 0900 $Ò DEVANAGARI SIGN INVERTED CANDRABINDU for transcribing Dravidian alveolar r = vaidika adhomukha candrabindu half form is represented as Eyelash RA 0901 $b DEVANAGARI SIGN CANDRABINDU À 0930 093C $¨ = anunasika 0932 DEVANAGARI LETTER LA a 0310 $ o combining candrabindu 0933 DEVANAGARI LETTER LLA 0902 $c DEVANAGARI SIGN ANUSVARA 0934 DEVANAGARI LETTER LLLA = bindu for transcribing Dravidian l 0903 $d DEVANAGARI SIGN VISARGA À 0933 093C $¨ Independent vowels 0935 DEVANAGARI LETTER VA 0936 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHA 0904 e DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A 0937 DEVANAGARI LETTER SSA 0905 f DEVANAGARI LETTER A 0938 DEVANAGARI LETTER SA 0906 g DEVANAGARI LETTER AA 0939 DEVANAGARI LETTER HA 0907 h DEVANAGARI LETTER I 0908 i DEVANAGARI LETTER II Various signs 0909 j DEVANAGARI LETTER U 093C $¨ DEVANAGARI SIGN NUKTA 090A k DEVANAGARI LETTER UU for extending the alphabet to new letters 090B l DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC R 093D © DEVANAGARI SIGN AVAGRAHA 090C m DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC L Dependent vowel signs 090D DEVANAGARI LETTER CANDRA E n 093E $ª DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AA 090E DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT E o 093F $« DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN I for transcribing Dravidian short e stands to the left of the consonant 090F DEVANAGARI LETTER E p 0940 $¬ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN II 0910 DEVANAGARI LETTER AI q 0941 $­ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN U 0911 DEVANAGARI LETTER CANDRA O r 0942 $® DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN UU 0912 DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT O s 0943 $¯ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R for transcribing Dravidian short o 0944 $° DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR 0913 t DEVANAGARI LETTER O 0945 $± DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN CANDRA E 0914 u DEVANAGARI LETTER AU = candra Consonants 0946 $² DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN SHORT E 0915 v DEVANAGARI LETTER KA for transcribing Dravidian vowels 0916 w DEVANAGARI LETTER KHA 0947 $³ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN E 0917 x DEVANAGARI LETTER GA 0948 $´ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AI 0918 y DEVANAGARI LETTER GHA 0949 $µ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN CANDRA O 0919 z DEVANAGARI LETTER NGA 094A $¶ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN SHORT O 091A { DEVANAGARI LETTER CA for transcribing Dravidian vowels 091B | DEVANAGARI LETTER CHA 094B $· DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN O 091C } DEVANAGARI LETTER JA 094C $¸ DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AU 091D ~ DEVANAGARI LETTER JHA Virama 091E DEVANAGARI LETTER NYA 094D $¹ DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA 091F DEVANAGARI LETTER TTA = halant (the preferred Hindi name) 0920 DEVANAGARI LETTER TTHA suppresses inherent vowel 0921 DEVANAGARI LETTER DDA Archaic dependent vowel sign 0922 DEVANAGARI LETTER DDHA 0923 DEVANAGARI LETTER NNA 094E $Ó DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN PRISHTHAMATRA E 0924 DEVANAGARI LETTER TA character has historic use only 0925 DEVANAGARI LETTER THA combines with E to form AI, with AA to form O, and with O to form AU 0926 DEVANAGARI LETTER DA 0927 DEVANAGARI LETTER DHA Sign 0928 DEVANAGARI LETTER NA 0950 º DEVANAGARI OM 0929 DEVANAGARI LETTER NNNA Vedic tone marks for transcribing Dravidian alveolar n 0951 $» DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN UDATTA À 0928 093C $¨ = Vedic tone svarita 092A DEVANAGARI LETTER PA mostly used for Rigvedic svarita, with rare use 092B DEVANAGARI LETTER PHA for Yajurvedic udatta 092C DEVANAGARI LETTER BA used also in Vedic texts written in other scripts 092D DEVANAGARI LETTER BHA a 1CDA $h vedic tone double svarita 092E DEVANAGARI LETTER MA 092F DEVANAGARI LETTER YA 0930 DEVANAGARI LETTER RA 68 The Unicode Standard 5.2, Copyright © 1991-2009 Unicode, Inc. All rights reserved. 0952 Devanagari 097F 0952 $¼ DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN ANUDATTA Additional consonants = Vedic tone anudatta 0979 Õ DEVANAGARI LETTER ZHA used also in Vedic texts written in other scripts used in transliteration of Avestan a 1CDC $j vedic tone kathaka anudatta 097A Ö DEVANAGARI LETTER HEAVY YA Accent marks used for an affricated glide JJYA 0953 $½ DEVANAGARI GRAVE ACCENT Sindhi implosives a 0300 $ _ combining grave accent 097B Ì DEVANAGARI LETTER GGA 0954 $¾ DEVANAGARI ACUTE ACCENT 097C Í DEVANAGARI LETTER JJA a 0301 $ ` combining acute accent 0955 $Ô DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN CANDRA LONG E Glottal stop used in transliteration of Avestan 097D Î DEVANAGARI LETTER GLOTTAL STOP used for writing Limbu in Devanagari Additional consonants a glyph variant has the connecting top bar 0958 ¿ DEVANAGARI LETTER QA À 0915 v 093C $¨ Sindhi implosives 0959 À DEVANAGARI LETTER KHHA 097E Ï DEVANAGARI LETTER DDDA À 0916 w 093C $¨ 097F Ë DEVANAGARI LETTER BBA 095A Á DEVANAGARI LETTER GHHA À 0917 x 093C $¨ 095B Â DEVANAGARI LETTER ZA À 091C } 093C $¨ 095C Ã DEVANAGARI LETTER DDDHA À 0921 093C $¨ 095D Ä DEVANAGARI LETTER RHA À 0922 093C $¨ 095E Å DEVANAGARI LETTER FA À 092B 093C $¨ 095F Æ DEVANAGARI LETTER YYA À 092F 093C $¨ Additional vowels for Sanskrit 0960 Ç DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC RR 0961 È DEVANAGARI LETTER VOCALIC LL 0962 $É DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L 0963 $Ê DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL Generic punctuation for scripts of India These punctuation marks are for common use for the scripts of India despite being named "DEVANAGARI". 0964 ¦ DEVANAGARI DANDA = purna viram phrase separator 0965 § DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA = deergh viram Digits 0966 DEVANAGARI DIGIT ZERO 0967 DEVANAGARI DIGIT ONE 0968 DEVANAGARI DIGIT TWO 0969 DEVANAGARI DIGIT THREE 096A DEVANAGARI DIGIT FOUR 096B DEVANAGARI DIGIT FIVE 096C ¡ DEVANAGARI DIGIT SIX 096D ¢ DEVANAGARI DIGIT SEVEN 096E £ DEVANAGARI DIGIT EIGHT 096F ¤ DEVANAGARI DIGIT NINE Devanagari-specific additions 0970 ¥ DEVANAGARI ABBREVIATION SIGN 0971 Ð DEVANAGARI SIGN HIGH SPACING DOT Additional vowel for Marathi 0972 Ñ DEVANAGARI LETTER CANDRA A Marathi The Unicode Standard 5.2, Copyright © 1991-2009 Unicode, Inc. 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