U+0D60 "ൠ" Malayalam Letter Vocalic Rr Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ൠ
U+0D60 "ൠ" Malayalam Letter Vocalic Rr is a rarely used vowel sign in the Malayalam script, historically representing a long vocalic "rr" sound derived from Sanskrit phonology. It is part of the ancient Dravidian writing system adapted for Sanskrit loanwords, but in modern Malayalam, this character is considered archaic and has largely fallen out of common usage, replaced by simpler combinations of consonants and vowel signs. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures faithful representation of classical texts and linguistic scholarship, where it appears in transliterations of Vedic or grammatical works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D60 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Vocalic Rr |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d60 |