U+0B8A "ஊ" Tamil Letter Uu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ஊ
U+0B8A "ஊ" Tamil Letter Uu is a vowel in the Tamil script representing the long vowel sound /uː/, similar to the "oo" in the English word "cool". It is derived from the short vowel "உ" (U) and is used as an independent character at the beginning of words or syllables, while also appearing as a dependent vowel sign attached to consonants. This character is part of the Tamil block in Unicode, which supports digital encoding for the modern Tamil language and its ancient literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B8A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Uu |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b8a |