U+0D0E "എ" Malayalam Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0D0E "എ" Malayalam Letter E is a vowel in the Malayalam script, representing the short vowel sound /e/ as in the English word "pet". It belongs to the Malayalam block of the Unicode standard and is encoded at the hexadecimal code point 0D0E. This character is an independent vowel, meaning it stands alone at the beginning of a syllable, and it can also serve as a combining vowel sign when modifying a consonant, though its primary form is the one found in the Unicode specification. In written Malayalam, it is a fundamental grapheme used in the formation of numerous words and is an essential part of the language's alphabetic system, which derives from the Brahmi script.

General Properties

Code Point U+0D0E
Version Added 1.1
Name Malayalam Letter E
Block Malayalam
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding എ
HTML Hex Encoding എ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB4 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0D0E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000D0E
C/C++/Java Escape \u0d0e

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Malayalam
Script Extensions Malayalam
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter