U+0BB0 "ர" Tamil Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ர
U+0BB0 "ர" Tamil Letter Ra is a consonant used in the Tamil script, representing the voiced retroflex approximant sound /ɾa/ in the language's phonology. It belongs to the Brahmi-derived Tamil syllabary and appears as a distinct glyph in modern Tamil writing, frequently occurring in everyday vocabulary and classical literature. This character also serves as a base form for creating complex conjunct characters when combined with vowel signs or other diacritics within the Unicode Tamil block, which ranges from U+0B80 to U+0BFF.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BB0 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ra |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ர |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ர |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BB0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BB0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bb0 |