U+0B82 "ஂ" Tamil Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ஂ
U+0B82 "ஂ" Tamil Sign Anusvara is a diacritical mark used in the Tamil script to indicate an anusvara, a type of nasalization that modifies the preceding consonant or vowel. It appears as a small raised dot or circle above the line of text, historically representing a homorganic nasal sound (like "n" or "m") borrowed primarily from Sanskrit-influenced vocabulary in Tamil. In modern usage, the Tamil Sign Anusvara is less common than in other Brahmic scripts, but it still appears in certain loanwords, religious texts, and scholastic contexts to preserve etymological spellings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B82 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B82 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B82 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b82 |