U+0CE2 "ೢ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0CE2 "ೢ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a vocalic L sound, a rare vowel type found in Sanskrit loanwords and scholarly transliterations. It is placed after a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel into this specific, short vocalic L, which is pronounced like a syllabic L sound rather than a standard vowel. This character is part of the Kannada block in Unicode and is primarily utilized in linguistic or liturgical contexts where precise phonetic transcription of ancient texts is necessary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CE2 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ೢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ೢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB3 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ce2 |