U+0C30 "ర" Telugu Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ర
U+0C30 "ర" Telugu Letter Ra is the twenty-second consonant in the Telugu abugida, representing the sound /ra/ when combined with the inherent vowel 'a.' This character is derived from the ancient Brahmi script and is a fundamental building block of the Telugu writing system, used to write the Dravidian language of Telugu primarily spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. In its standalone form, it is pronounced as "ra," but it can be modified with various diacritic marks to represent different vowel sounds, such as "రా" for a long "raa" or "రు" for "ru."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C30 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Ra |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ర |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ర |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c30 |