U+0CC6 "ೆ" Kannada Vowel Sign E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0CC6 "ೆ" Kannada Vowel Sign E is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent the short vowel sound "e". It is always placed to the left of the consonant it modifies, which is a distinctive visual feature of Kannada orthography. This character is part of the Kannada block in Unicode and is essential for correctly writing numerous words in the Kannada language, such as the word for "why" which is written as "ಯೆಕೆ" using this vowel sign.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CC6 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Vowel Sign E |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ೆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ೆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB3 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CC6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CC6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cc6 |