U+0CC3 "ೃ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0CC3 "ೃ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a vocalic 'r' sound, which functions as a vowel in certain Sanskrit-derived loanwords and linguistic contexts. It is placed below a consonant character to modify its pronunciation, typically indicating a syllabic 'r' sound that is distinct from the regular consonantal 'r'. This symbol is part of the Kannada block in Unicode and supports the accurate phonetic representation of words borrowed from Sanskrit, where vocalic consonants occur, and is essential for proper orthography in scholarly and liturgical texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CC3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| Block | Kannada |
| 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 0xB3 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cc3 |