U+0D43 "ൃ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic R Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ൃ
U+0D43 "ൃ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic R is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the written form of a vocalic or syllabic "r" sound, which occurs in certain Sanskrit loanwords and classical literary contexts. This character is applied as a vowel sign that modifies a consonant, appearing beneath or attached to the base character, and it plays a role in accurately transcribing the pronunciation and orthography of words that contain this specific vowel, distinct from the more common vowel signs for regular "a", "i", "u" sounds found in everyday Malayalam.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D43 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic R |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d43 |