U+0B44 "ୄ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B44 "ୄ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a combining diacritical mark used in the Odia script to represent a long vocalic "rr" sound, a vowel derived from the Sanskrit ऌ. It is placed above or attached to a consonant character, modifying the consonant's inherent vowel to produce this specific extended vowel sound. This character is part of the Oriya Unicode block and is employed primarily in formal or scholarly transliterations of Sanskrit and other classical texts, rather than in everyday modern Odia language use.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B44 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr |
| 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 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B44 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B44 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b44 |