# U+0951 DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN UDATTA

Short vertical stroke above a Devanagari letter marking Vedic pitch accent, mostly the svarita tone, sometimes udatta, in Sanskrit Vedic texts.

| | |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+0951 |
| Name | DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN UDATTA |
| Also known as | Vedic tone svarita |
| Block | [Devanagari](https://unicodekit.com/block/devanagari) |
| Script | Bengali, Devanagari, Grantha, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Latin, Malayalam, Nandinagari, Newa, Oriya, Sharada, Tamil, Telugu, Tirhuta |
| Category | Nonspacing Mark (Mn) |
| Unicode version | 1.1 |
| HTML | `॑` `॑` |
| CSS | `\951` |
| JavaScript | `\u0951` |
| UTF-8 | E0 A5 91 |
| UTF-16 | 0951 |

## Notes

- mostly used for svarita, with rare use for udatta
- used also in Vedic texts written in other scripts

## Related characters

- ॐ [U+0950 DEVANAGARI OM](https://unicodekit.com/char/0950)
- [U+0952 DEVANAGARI STRESS SIGN ANUDATTA](https://unicodekit.com/char/0952)
- [U+094F DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AW](https://unicodekit.com/char/094F)
- [U+0953 DEVANAGARI GRAVE ACCENT](https://unicodekit.com/char/0953)
- [U+094E DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN PRISHTHAMATRA E](https://unicodekit.com/char/094E)
- [U+0954 DEVANAGARI ACUTE ACCENT](https://unicodekit.com/char/0954)
- [U+094D DEVANAGARI SIGN VIRAMA](https://unicodekit.com/char/094D)
- [U+0955 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN CANDRA LONG E](https://unicodekit.com/char/0955)
- [U+094C DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN AU](https://unicodekit.com/char/094C)
- [U+0956 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN UE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0956)
- [U+094B DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN O](https://unicodekit.com/char/094B)
- [U+0957 DEVANAGARI VOWEL SIGN UUE](https://unicodekit.com/char/0957)

Page: https://unicodekit.com/char/0951 · JSON: https://unicodekit.com/characters/0951