U+0B71 "ୱ" Oriya Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ୱ
U+0B71 "ୱ" Oriya Letter Wa is a specific glyph used in the Odia script, primarily for writing the Odia language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It represents the consonant sound /w/ or /v/ in Odia phonology, functioning as a labiodental or bilabial approximant depending on the regional dialect. This character was added to the Unicode Standard as part of the Oriya block to support accurate digital representation of the language, particularly for words of foreign origin or specific native terms where the sound is distinct from the more common "ba" and "va" letters. Its inclusion enables proper text rendering, searching, and linguistic analysis for Odia in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B71 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Wa |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ୱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ୱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B71 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B71 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b71 |