U+0CCB "ೋ" Kannada Vowel Sign Oo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0CCB "ೋ" Kannada Vowel Sign Oo is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent the long vowel sound "oo" as in "moon" or the "O" sound in "go". This sign is placed above the consonant character it modifies, visually appearing as a sweeping curl or loop, and it is a crucial component for accurately writing and reading Kannada words that require this specific vowel length.

General Properties

Code Point U+0CCB
Version Added 1.1
Name Kannada Vowel Sign Oo
Block Kannada
General Category Spacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "ೊ" U+0CCA Kannada Vowel Sign O
"ೕ" U+0CD5 Kannada Length Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ೋ
HTML Hex Encoding ೋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB3 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0CCB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000CCB
C/C++/Java Escape \u0ccb

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC 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 Top And Right
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Other Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend