U+0BB1 "ற" Tamil Letter Rra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ற
U+0BB1 "ற" Tamil Letter Rra is a distinct consonant in the Tamil script, classified as a retroflex plosive sound that is produced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. It is the twenty third letter of the Tamil alphabet and represents a phoneme fundamental to the language, often transliterated as "rra" to differentiate it from the alveolar "ர" (ra). This character appears in a wide range of native Tamil vocabulary and is integral to proper pronunciation in classical and modern Tamil literature, as well as in daily communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BB1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Rra |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ற |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ற |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BB1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BB1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bb1 |