U+0B9F "ட" Tamil Letter Tta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0B9F "ட" Tamil Letter Tta is a fundamental consonant in the Tamil abugida, representing the retroflex stop sound /ʈ/, similar to the 't' in English words like "stop" but pronounced with the tongue curled back to the roof of the mouth. As the fifteenth letter of the Tamil alphabet, it belongs to the vallinam (hard consonants) category and primarily appears as a single character in digital text, though it also serves as a base for forming compound syllables through the addition of vowel markers.

General Properties

Code Point U+0B9F
Version Added 1.1
Name Tamil Letter Tta
Block Tamil
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ட
HTML Hex Encoding ட
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xAE 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0B9F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000B9F
C/C++/Java Escape \u0b9f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Tamil
Script Extensions Tamil
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter