U+0B8F "ஏ" Tamil Letter Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B8F "ஏ" Tamil Letter Ee is a vowel in the Tamil script, specifically representing the long vowel sound 'ee' as in the English word 'see'. It is a distinct character in the Tamil abugida, where it can appear independently or as a modifying vowel sign when combined with consonants, altering their inherent vowel sound. This character is part of the Tamil Unicode block, encoded at the hexadecimal code point U+0B8F, and is used in the modern Tamil language to write words and texts, contributing to the accurate representation of Tamil phonetics in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B8F |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ee |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b8f |