U+0C09 "ఉ" Telugu Letter U Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Telugu
Script Extensions Telugu
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter