U+0981 Bengali Sign Candrabindu
U+0981 was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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 no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Nonspacing Mark. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0981 prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.
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.
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|
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 31 D9 37 |
| 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 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Extend | |
| — | |
| Top | |
| Bindu | |
| — | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Yes | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| Yes | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✔︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| ✘︎ | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Transparent | |
| Combining Mark | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Bengali Sign Candrabindu | |
| R |