U+0B43 "ୃ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ୃ
U+0B43 "ୃ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Odia (formerly Oriya) script to represent a vocalic R sound, a syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in Sanskrit-derived vocabulary. This character appears as a distinct symbol attached below a consonant letter (matra) to modify its inherent vowel sound into the short vocalic R. It is properly rendered only after base consonants and is part of a limited set of vocalic signs in Odia, reflecting the script's adaptation for precise phonetic transcription of classical and liturgical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ୃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ୃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b43 |