U+0B60 "ୠ" Oriya Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B60 "ୠ" Oriya Letter Vocalic Rr is a vowel letter used in the Odia script, primarily for transliterating Sanskrit texts where it represents a long retroflex vowel sound. It is a relatively rare character, not part of the standard spoken Odia language, and is often found in liturgical or scholarly writing. The character visually resembles the basic consonant sign with an added diacritic, and its encoding in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent this specialized orthographic form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B60 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ୠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ୠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b60 |