U+0D48 "ൈ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ൈ
U+0D48 "ൈ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Ai is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the vowel sound "ai" as in the word "kairali". It is always written to the left of the consonant it modifies, attaching to the base character to form a syllabic unit, and it is an essential component for accurately spelling a wide range of Malayalam words, particularly those derived from Sanskrit.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D48 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign Ai |
| 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 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d48 |