U+0C41 "ు" Telugu Vowel Sign U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0C41 "ు" Telugu Vowel Sign U is a combining diacritical mark used in the Telugu script to represent the short vowel sound "u" as in the English word "put." Known as a vowel sign or matra, it is placed below a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel sound, transforming a consonant like క (ka) into కు (ku). This character is distinct from the independent vowel form ఉ (U+0C09) and is essential for accurately writing and reading Telugu, a Dravidian language of South India, as it appears in countless words to denote the short /u/ phoneme.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C41 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Vowel Sign U |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ు |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ు |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB1 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C41 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C41 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c41 |