U+0D4B "ോ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Oo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ോ
U+0D4B "ോ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Oo is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the vowel sound "o" (as in "go"). It is always placed after a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel sound to "oo", altering the pronunciation and meaning of the word. This sign is visually distinct from the similar vowel sign for "o" (U+0D4B vs. U+0D4C), with its primary use in writing standard Malayalam and in transliterating Sanskrit texts into the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D4B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign Oo |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "േ" U+0D47 Malayalam Vowel Sign Ee "ാ" U+0D3E Malayalam Vowel Sign Aa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ോ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ോ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d4b |