U+0C09 "ఉ" Telugu Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఉ
U+0C09 "ఉ" Telugu Letter U is a vowel in the Telugu script, representing the short vowel sound /u/ as in the English word "put" without the lip rounding. It is used in writing the Telugu language, primarily spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, and appears in words such as ఉడుత (uḍuta, meaning squirrel) where it forms an initial vowel. Its canonical decomposition is simply as a single character, and it serves as a fundamental building block for spelling and pronunciation in Telugu orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C09 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter U |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c09 |