U+0B55 "୕" Oriya Sign Overline Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
୕
U+0B55 "୕" Oriya Sign Overline is a combining diacritical mark used in the Odia (Oriya) script, primarily to extend a vowel sign or other diacritic over a conjunct consonant or a full syllable, ensuring proper representation in complex orthography. It appears as a short horizontal line placed above characters, often employed in transliteration or scholarly contexts to denote a specific phonetic or grammatical feature, such as lengthening or nasalization. This sign is found in the Unicode block for Oriya script and serves to enhance the accurate digital rendering of written Odia text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B55 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Oriya Sign Overline |
| 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 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B55 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B55 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b55 |