U+0C90 "ಐ" Kannada Letter Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಐ
U+0C90 "ಐ" Kannada Letter Ai is a vowel used in the Kannada script, which is primarily employed for writing the Kannada language spoken in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. It represents the diphthong vowel sound /ai/, similar to the 'i' in the English word "kite," and is an essential component of the Kannada abugida, functioning as an independent character in initial positions or as a diacritic mark when combined with consonants. This character is part of the Kannada Unicode block, encoded in version 1.1 of the Unicode Standard, and it plays a key role in representing the phonetic inventory of the language, particularly in words where this specific vowel sound occurs at the beginning of syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C90 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ai |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C90 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C90 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c90 |