U+0BF8 "௸" Tamil as Above Sign Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
௸
U+0BF8 "௸" Tamil as Above Sign is a typographic mark used in the Tamil script to denote a diacritical or positional cue indicating that a vowel or vowel sign is to be read as placed above the consonant, rather than in its usual attached position. It is a rare, non-combining symbol most often encountered in older or formal Tamil texts, particularly in manuscripts or scholarly editions, where it clarifies vowel placement for proper phonetic representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BF8 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Tamil as Above Sign |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ௸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ௸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAF 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BF8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BF8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bf8 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Alphabetic |
| Script | Tamil |
| Script Extensions | Tamil |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |