U+0B63 "ୣ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ୣ
U+0B63 "ୣ" Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a combining diacritical mark used in the Odia script to represent a vocalic double lateral sound. It modifies a consonant to add a specific vowel quality, historically corresponding to a long vocalic "ḷ" sound, though its usage in modern Odia is extremely rare or obsolete. This character appears as a distinct sign placed above or attached to a consonant base, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard for the preservation and digital representation of historical or linguistic texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B63 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Oriya Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b63 |