U+0D54 "ൔ" Malayalam Letter Chillu M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0D54 "ൔ" Malayalam Letter Chillu M is a special consonant character in the Malayalam script, representing a "chillu" or pure consonant form of the letter 'ma' without an inherent vowel sound. This character, part of a set of dedicated chillu letters added to the Unicode standard to modernize digital representation, is used in specific linguistic contexts where the consonant appears at the end of a syllable or word, often derived from historical orthographic conventions. It enables accurate and compact text encoding for Malayalam, particularly in literary and scholarly works where such closed-syllable forms are essential for proper pronunciation and grammar.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D54 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Chillu M |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൔ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൔ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0x94 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D54 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D54 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d54 |