U+0BCC "ௌ" Tamil Vowel Sign Au Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0BCC "ௌ" Tamil Vowel Sign Au is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tamil script to represent the vowel sound "au" as in the English word "loud." It appears as a dependent vowel sign, attached to a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel sound, and is composed of two distinct glyphic elements that combine to form a single visual unit. This sign is part of the Tamil syllabary and is essential for accurately writing Tamil words that contain the diphthongal "au" sound.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BCC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Vowel Sign Au |
| 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+0BD7 Tamil Au Length Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ௌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ௌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAF 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BCC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BCC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bcc |