DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A

Codepoint
U+0904
Literal Character
Name
DEVANAGARI LETTER SHORT A
Sketch
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Control Character
no
Block
Devanagari
Subblock
Independent vowels
UTF-8 byte encoding
e0 a4 84
UTF-16 byte encoding
09 04 (big endian)
HTML Entity
ऄ
Perl string literal
\x{904}
Comments
  • used for short e in Awadhi
  • also used in Devanagari transliterations of some South Indian and Kashmiri languages by a publisher in Lucknow