U+0913 "ओ" Devanagari Letter O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ओ
U+0913 "ओ" Devanagari Letter O is a vowel used in the Devanagari script, representing the sound /oː/ in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit. It is the twelfth vowel in the Devanagari alphabet and is written as an independent character for the initial vowel sound in a word, while its corresponding diacritic form, known as the O matra, appears as a mark attached to a consonant letter. In typographic rendering, this character is essential for accurately writing words like "ओस" (dew) and "ओखली" (mortar), and its shape is characterized by a rounded, open top that distinguishes it from similar vowels.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0913 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter O |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ओ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ओ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0913 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000913 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0913 |