U+0BCB "ோ" Tamil Vowel Sign Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0BCB "ோ" Tamil Vowel Sign Oo is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tamil script, representing the long vowel sound "oo" as in the word "school." It is written as a visible mark that typically appears above the consonant it modifies, transforming the inherent vowel sound of that consonant from a short "a" to the longer "oo." This character is part of the Tamil block in Unicode and is essential for accurately writing many standard Tamil words, where it combines with base consonants to form syllables like கோ (koo) or பூ (poo).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BCB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Vowel Sign Oo |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ே" U+0BC7 Tamil Vowel Sign Ee "ா" U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ோ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ோ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAF 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BCB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BCB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bcb |