U+0D40 "ീ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Ii Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0D40 "ീ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Ii is a combining diacritic mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the long vowel sound "ii," which is equivalent to the letter "I" with a macron (ī) in transliteration. It is always placed to the right of a consonant character, modifying the consonant's inherent vowel sound to produce the long i sound. This vowel sign is essential for writing many words in the Malayalam language, such as "നീ" (nī, meaning "you"), and functions as the dependent form of the independent vowel letter "ഈ" (U+0D08).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D40 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign Ii |
| 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 0xB5 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D40 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D40 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d40 |