U+0BBE "ா" Tamil Vowel Sign Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ா
U+0BBE "ா" Tamil Vowel Sign Aa is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tamil script to represent the long vowel sound "ā" as in the English word "father". It is classified as a vowel sign, meaning it modifies the inherent vowel sound of a preceding consonant character, transforming it from a short "a" to a long "ā". This character appears to the right of the consonant it modifies when written in the Tamil abugida, and it is essential for proper phonetic representation and correct spelling in Tamil orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BBE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Vowel Sign Aa |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ா |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ா |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BBE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BBE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bbe |