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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Combining Mark
Script Malayalam
Script Extensions Malayalam
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Left
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Spacing Mark
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend