U+0981 Bengali Sign Candrabindu
U+0981 was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Bengali in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Bengali script.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0981 behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Chandrabindu (IAST: candrabindu, lit. 'moon dot' in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (ঁ), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Telugu (ఁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scripts.
It usually means that the previous vowel is nasalized.
In Hindi, it is replaced in writing by anusvara when it is written above a consonant that carries a vowel symbol that extends above the top line.
In Classical Sanskrit, it seems to occur only over a lla conjunct consonant, to show that it is pronounced as a nasalized double l, which occurs if -nl- have become assimilated in sandhi.
In Vedic Sanskrit, it is used instead of anusvara to represent the sound anunasika when the next word starts with a vowel. It usually occurs where in earlier times a word ended in -ans.
Unicode encodes chandrabindu and chandrabindu-like characters for a variety of scripts:
- U+1B01 ᬁ BALINESE SIGN ULU CANDRA
- U+1B00 ᬀ BALINESE SIGN ULU RICEM
- U+0981 ঁ BENGALI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11C3C 𑰼 BHAIKSUKI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11000 𑀀 BRAHMI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0901 ँ DEVANAGARI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+A8F2 ꣲ DEVANAGARI SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
- U+A8F3 ꣳ DEVANAGARI SIGN CANDRABINDU VIRAMA
- U+0900 ऀ DEVANAGARI SIGN INVERTED CANDRABINDU
- U+1193C 𑤼 DIVES AKURU SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11301 𑌁 GRANTHA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0A81 ઁ GUJARATI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0A01 ਁ GURMUKHI SIGN ADAK BINDI
- U+0A70 ੰ GURMUKHI TIPPI
- U+A980 ꦀ JAVANESE SIGN PANYANGGA
- U+11080 𑂀 KAITHI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0C80 ಀ KANNADA SIGN SPACING CANDRABINDU
- U+0C81 ಁ KANNADA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11F00 𑼀 KAWI SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+1C34 ᰴ LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN NYIN-DO
- U+1C35 ᰵ LEPCHA CONSONANT SIGN KANG
- U+0D01 ഁ MALAYALAM SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11CB6 𑲶 MARCHEN SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11443 𑑃 NEWA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0B01 ଁ ODIA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+A873 ꡳ PHAGS-PA LETTER CANDRABINDU
- U+A8C5 ꣅ SAURASHTRA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+111CF 𑇏 SHARADA SIGN INVERTED CANDRABINDU
- U+115BC 𑖼 SIDDHAM SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0D81 ඁ SINHALA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0C01 ఁ TELUGU SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+0C00 ఀ TELUGU SIGN COMBINING CANDRABINDU ABOVE
- U+0F82 ྂ TIBETAN SIGN NYI ZLA NAA DA
- U+0F83 ྃ TIBETAN SIGN SNA LDAN
- U+114BF 𑒿 TIRHUTA SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11A35 𑨵 ZANABAZAR SQUARE SIGN CANDRABINDU
- U+11A36 𑨶 ZANABAZAR SQUARE SIGN CANDRABINDU WITH ORNAMENT
- U+11A37 𑨷 ZANABAZAR SQUARE SIGN CANDRA WITH ORNAMENT
There is also a general-purpose combining diacritical mark COMBINING CANDRABINDU code point U+0310 (◌̐), but that is intended for use with Latin letters in transliteration of Indic languages.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 2433 |
| UTF-8 | E0 A6 81 |
| UTF-16 | 09 81 |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 09 81 |
| URL-Quoted | %E0%A6%81 |
| HTML hex reference | ঁ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ঠ|
| Adobe Glyph List | candrabindubengali |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| BENGALI SIGN CANDRABINDU | |
| — | |
| Bengali | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Bengali | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| Top | |
| Bindu | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Transparent | |
| Combining Mark | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| R |