U+0B62 "ୢ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B62 "ୢ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a diacritical mark used in the Odia script to represent a vocalic L sound, a vowel that occurs in Sanskrit-derived loanwords. This combining character is placed below a consonant character to modify its pronunciation, indicating the presence of this syllabic liquid vowel. It forms part of the Oriya script's repertoire for accurately transcribing the rich phonetic inventory of classical and liturgical languages, though it is relatively rare in modern Odia usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B62 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| 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 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b62 |