U+0C13 "ఓ" Telugu Letter Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ఓ
U+0C13 "ఓ" Telugu Letter Oo is a vowel in the Telugu script, representing the long vowel sound /oː/, akin to the "o" in the English word "go" but held longer. It is part of the Telugu block in Unicode and is used as an independent character when a word begins with this vowel sound, such as in the word "ఓటు" (vote) or as a vowel sign attached to a consonant. Structurally, it is derived from the Brahmi script and is closely related to other Dravidian script characters, playing a fundamental role in writing the Telugu language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C13 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Oo |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ఓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ఓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C13 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c13 |