U+0C43 "ృ" Telugu Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ృ
U+0C43 "ృ" Telugu Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Telugu script to represent the vocalic r sound, a short syllabic consonant that functions as a vowel in linguistic contexts. It modifies a base consonant character, attaching as a visible sign above and to the right of the letter, and is distinct from the similar vocalic l or standard vowel signs like "ు." This character is primarily employed in writing classical Sanskrit loanwords and scholarly transcriptions within Telugu, where it preserves the pronunciation of the ancient syllabic r sound found in words like "ऋ" (ṛ).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| 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 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c43 |