U+0A0F "ਏ" Gurmukhi Letter Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0A0F "ਏ" Gurmukhi Letter Ee is a vowel character used in the Gurmukhi script, which is primarily employed for writing the Punjabi language in India. It represents the long vowel sound "e" as in the English word "play" and is classified as an independent vowel, meaning it appears as a standalone letter at the beginning of a syllable rather than as a diacritic mark attached to a consonant. In the context of the Gurmukhi alphabet, this character occupies the ninth position in the vowel inventory and plays a crucial role in accurately representing Punjabi phonetics and orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A0F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter Ee |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA8 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A0F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A0F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a0f |