U+0B89 "உ" Tamil Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
உ
U+0B89 "உ" Tamil Letter U is a vowel in the Tamil script, representing the short vowel sound /u/ as in the English word "put." It is the third letter of the Tamil alphabet and serves as a fundamental building block for forming syllables, often combining with consonants to create consonant-vowel pairs using distinct diacritic marks. This character is used in the Tamil language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and among Tamil diaspora communities worldwide, and it appears in classical literature, modern writing, and digital text across various platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B89 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter U |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | உ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | உ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B89 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B89 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b89 |