Click on characters below to create text in the box below that, then copy & paste to your content.
Precomposed:
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Custom font:
Size:
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Add codepoint:
Search for:
Normalise: NFC
Autofocus: On
Notes:
You must have JavaScript enabled. Choose a view from the list just below the page title. To produce text in the output area, click on character shapes, or use your keyboard for Latin characters, delete, etc. Then cut & paste the result to your document, or use the buttons to get further information about the characters.
You can also add codepoints and escapes via the "Add codepoint" field (hit return to add to the output field). You can also paste text into the output field to get information about it. Use the yellow boxes to set preferences or search. Regular expressions are allowed when searching – for example, to find characters with the word KA in their name, enter \bka\b, or the short form :ka:.
About the chart
Includes characters in the Unicode 5.0 Devanagari block. It does not include the 17 characters added since then (mostly for Kashmiri).
All text is output in Unicode normalisation form NFC by default. You can change to NFD or no normalisation by clicking on the buttons in the yellow area. Note that normalization only takes place when you click on a character - text pasted into the box won't be normalised until you click on another character above, or click on a button in the yellow area. (Note: normalization is turned off for Han characters in this application.)
Alternative views
The following alternative views are available from the menu just below the page title. You can start up directly in one of the views by appending the following to your URI: ?view=, followed by one of, respectively, default, keyboard or fontgrid.
Default This view is likely to be more useful to people who are somewhat familiar with the alphabet and characters of Devanagari. Characters are arranged based on the use of the script in order to speed up picking.
Consonants are in a modified Indian articulatory arrangement, to the left. To their right are all the other characters. Independent vowels are at the top. Below these are the vowel signs and combining characters. The line below the combining characters contains punctuation. The bottom lines contain numbers 0-9 and related symbols, and punctuation.
Click on the 'Advanced' arrow top right for less often used characters.
Keyboard This viewesents the union of all transcription and phonetic characters, and is provided in case you wish to just type in a transcription directly.
Font grid Shows characters in Unicode order, using whatever font is specified in the Font list or Custom font input fields. The size too can be set. This allows comparison of fonts (especially useful in IE, which shows if a glyph is missing from a font).
Other features
For further information about features of the tool or user interface, see How to use.
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