U+0D02 "ം" Malayalam Sign Anusvara Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ം
U+0D02 "ം" Malayalam Sign Anusvara is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the anusvara, a nasalization symbol that typically indicates a homorganic nasal sound following a vowel or a consonant. It is placed above the character it modifies, often signifying that the preceding vowel or consonant should be pronounced with a nasal resonance, and it is commonly found in words of Sanskrit origin borrowed into Malayalam. This character is distinct from the independent vowel sign for anusvara in other Indic scripts and plays a key role in accurately representing phonetic nasalization in written Malayalam.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D02 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Sign Anusvara |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ം |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ം |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d02 |