U+0D4A "ൊ" Malayalam Vowel Sign O Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0D4A "ൊ" Malayalam Vowel Sign O is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the short vowel sound "o" as in the English word "core." This character is classified as a spacing combining mark, meaning it is placed to the left of a base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel sound, and it specifically forms an independent orthographic unit when combined with consonants like "ക" to create "കൊ." It belongs to the Malayalam block of Unicode and is distinct from the independent vowel form of O, serving only as a dependent vowel sign attached to consonants in the syllabic writing system of the Malayalam language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D4A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign O |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "െ" U+0D46 Malayalam Vowel Sign E "ാ" U+0D3E Malayalam Vowel Sign Aa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d4a |