U+0D0E "എ" Malayalam Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
എ
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 |