What is the difference between Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta and Combining Macron Below?

Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta is U+0952 in the Devanagari block. Combining Macron Below is U+0331 in the Combining Diacritical Marks block. They are distinct Unicode codepoints and may appear visually similar depending on the font.

What is the HTML entity for Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta?

The HTML entity for Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta (U+0952) is ॒.

What is the HTML entity for Combining Macron Below?

The HTML entity for Combining Macron Below (U+0331) is ̱.

Are Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta and Combining Macron Below the same Unicode character?

No. Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta is U+0952 (decimal 2386) and Combining Macron Below is U+0331 (decimal 817). They are separate codepoints.

What are the UTF-8 encodings of Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta and Combining Macron Below?

Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta (U+0952) encodes as E0 A5 92 in UTF-8. Combining Macron Below (U+0331) encodes as CC B1 in UTF-8.

Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta vs Combining Macron Below

Compare two Unicode characters side by side — encodings, HTML entities, escape sequences, and Unicode properties. Useful for distinguishing visually similar characters like hyphens and dashes, quotation marks, or homoglyphs.

॒

Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta

U+0952

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Combining Macron Below

U+0331

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Property Comparison

Property	Devanagari Stress Sign Anudatta	Combining Macron Below
Codepoint	`U+0952`	`U+0331`
Decimal	`2386`	`817`
HTML Entity	`॒`	`̱`
HTML Decimal	`॒`	`̱`
HTML Hex	`॒`	`̱`
UTF-8	`E0 A5 92`	`CC B1`
UTF-16	`09 52`	`03 31`
UTF-32	`00000952`	`00000331`
CSS Escape	`\952`	`\331`
JS Escape	`\u0952`	`\u0331`
Python Escape	`\u0952`	`\u0331`
URL Encoded	`%E0%A5%92`	`%CC%B1`
Category	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`	`Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)`
Block	`Devanagari`	`Combining Diacritical Marks`
Script	`Inherited`	`Inherited`
Bidi Class	`NSM`	`NSM`
Unicode Version	`1.1`	`1.1`

Rows highlighted in amber differ between the two characters.

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