U+0D00 "ഀ" Malayalam Sign Combining Anusvara Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഀ
U+0D00 "ഀ" Malayalam Sign Combining Anusvara Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script, where it is placed above a base consonant to indicate an anusvara, a type of nasalization or homorganic nasal sound that follows the consonant. It belongs to the Malayalam block of Unicode and is considered a spacing combining mark, meaning it occupies its own character width rather than merging into the base glyph. This character helps represent certain Sanskrit loanwords and phonetic nuances in Malayalam writing, though it is not commonly used in modern standard Malayalam.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D00 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Sign Combining Anusvara Above |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ഀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ഀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d00 |