U+0B88 "ஈ" Tamil Letter Ii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B88 "ஈ" Tamil Letter Ii is a distinct character in the Tamil script representing the long vowel sound "ii", pronounced similarly to the "ee" in the English word "see". It is part of the Unicode block for Tamil, which is used to encode the writing system of the Tamil language. This character is derived from the Brahmic family of scripts and is used in written Tamil to form words and distinguish meaning, as vowel length is phonemic in the language. The glyph for U+0B88 typically appears as a curved or looped symbol, often with a small diacritic mark attached, and it is classified as a vowel in the Tamil syllabary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B88 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ii |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b88 |