U+0D62 "ൢ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ൢ
U+0D62 "ൢ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent a vocalic or syllabic 'l' sound, specifically a vowel that functions as a syllable nucleus, which is a feature inherited from the grammar of Sanskrit and occurs primarily in transliterated Sanskrit loanwords. This character is placed after a base consonant character to modify its vowel sound into a short vocalic L, and it is part of a set of historic vowel signs that are now rarely used in modern Malayalam but remain important for accurate textual representation and scholarship.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D62 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic L |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d62 |