U+0C0B "ఋ" Telugu Letter Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఋ
U+0C0B "ఋ" Telugu Letter Vocalic R is a syllabic letter in the Telugu script used to represent a short vowel sound that is a vocalic or syllabic 'r', a phonetic element inherited from Sanskrit and present in many Dravidian languages. This character is unique because it functions as a vowel, rather than a consonant, and it appears in classical and liturgical texts, such as in the writing of Sanskrit mantras and Telugu poetry, where it denotes a specific rhythmic and phonetic value. In modern Telugu, its usage is largely confined to loanwords and scholarly contexts, making it a specialized but culturally important glyph within the Unicode Standard for digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C0B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Vocalic R |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C0B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C0B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c0b |