U+0BCA "ொ" Tamil Vowel Sign O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0BCA "ொ" Tamil Vowel Sign O is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tamil script to represent the independent vowel sound "o" when it modifies a consonant. This character is classified as a dependent vowel sign, meaning it is placed after a consonant character to indicate that the consonant is pronounced with the vowel "o" following it, altering the inherent "a" sound of the consonant. In typographic context, the sign appears as a visually distinct ligature that combines a curve and a short vertical line above and to the right of the base consonant, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard under the Tamil block, specifically for writing the Tamil language where it is an essential component for accurate phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BCA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Vowel Sign O |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ெ" U+0BC6 Tamil Vowel Sign E "ா" U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ொ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ொ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAF 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BCA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BCA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bca |