U+0D30 "ര" Malayalam Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ര
U+0D30 "ര" Malayalam Letter Ra is a fundamental consonant in the Malayalam script, representing the voiced alveolar trill sound /r/. It is part of the Malayalam Unicode block and is used as a primary building block for forming syllables and words in the Malayalam language, which is predominantly spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep. This character appears in the middle or beginning of many common words and can combine with vowel signs and other diacritics to produce complex syllabic forms, distinguishing it from similar sounding letters in the alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D30 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Ra |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ര |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ര |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D30 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D30 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d30 |