U+0C3E "ా" Telugu Vowel Sign Aa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ా
U+0C3E "ా" Telugu Vowel Sign Aa is a combining diacritical mark used in the Telugu abugida to represent the long vowel sound "ā" following a consonant. Unlike an independent letter, this sign is always attached to a consonant character, modifying its inherent "a" vowel to a longer "aa" sound, as in the syllable "కా" (kā). It is visually distinct as a curved, open-topped stroke that generally extends to the right of the base consonant, playing a fundamental role in Telugu orthography and distinguishing word meanings through vowel length.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C3E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Vowel Sign Aa |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ా |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ా |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C3E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C3E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c3e |