U+0BC7 "ே" Tamil Vowel Sign Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0BC7 "ே" Tamil Vowel Sign Ee is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tamil script to represent the long vowel sound "ee" (as in the English word "see"). It is classified as a spacing combining mark, meaning it occupies its own visible space and is placed visually to the right of a Tamil consonant character, extending the inherent vowel of that consonant from a short 'e' or 'a' sound to the long 'ee' sound. This character is integral to forming various syllables in the Tamil language and is commonly encountered in writing across various contexts, from everyday vocabulary to classical literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BC7 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Vowel Sign Ee |
| 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 0xAF 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BC7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BC7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bc7 |