U+0BB1 "ற" Tamil Letter Rra Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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