U+0CC8 "ೈ" Kannada Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0CC8 "ೈ" Kannada Vowel Sign Ai is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent the vowel sound "ai" when attached to a consonant. This character modifies the inherent vowel of a consonant base, transforming its pronunciation to the diphthong /ai/ and appears as an upward and backward sweeping symbol placed above and to the right of the consonant glyph. It is a crucial component of the Kannada orthography, enabling the accurate representation of words in the Dravidian language of Kannada, which is primarily spoken in the state of Karnataka, India.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CC8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Vowel Sign Ai |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ೆ" U+0CC6 Kannada Vowel Sign E "ೖ" U+0CD6 Kannada Ai Length Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ೈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ೈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB3 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cc8 |