U+0CE3 "ೣ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ೣ
U+0CE3 "ೣ" Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent a vocalic double lateral consonant sound, which is a rare and largely historical or scholarly phonetic element derived from the Dravidian linguistic tradition. This character appears as a small sign placed below a consonant to modify its pronunciation, and it is part of a set of vowel signs that extend the standard Kannada vowels to include ancient or Sanskrit-derived sounds no longer common in everyday modern usage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CE3 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Kannada Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CE3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CE3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ce3 |