U+0CC4 "ೄ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0CC4 "ೄ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a long vocalic consonant sound, specifically a lengthened version of the vocalic R sound that functions as a vowel in linguistic contexts. It is applied to a base consonant character, typically by being written as a symbol above and to the right of the consonant, to modify its inherent vowel into this particular vocalic sound. This character is part of the Unicode Standard's Kannada block and is used in scholarly transliteration or phonetic transcription of ancient Sanskrit-derived texts, though it is rarely encountered in modern everyday Kannada writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+0CC4
Version Added 1.1
Name Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic Rr
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 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0CC4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000CC4
C/C++/Java Escape \u0cc4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Combining Mark
Script Kannada
Script Extensions Kannada
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Right
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend