U+0B14 "ଔ" Oriya Letter Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B14 "ଔ" Oriya Letter Au is a vowel character used in the Odia script, which is primarily employed to write the Odia language of eastern India. This letter represents the diphthong sound /ɔu/ and is classified as a standalone vowel, appearing at the beginning of a word or syllable. It is part of the Oriya block within Unicode, serving as a key component for accurately representing Odia orthography, and it follows the typical Brahmi-derived script structure where vowels modify the consonant symbols they attach to.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B14 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Au |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B14 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B14 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b14 |