U+0D63 "ൣ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ൣ
U+0D63 "ൣ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll is a combining diacritic mark used in the Malayalam script to represent a long vocalic 'l' sound, which is a rare or archaic vowel-like consonant found primarily in classical or Sanskrit-derived vocabulary. As a vowel sign, it attaches to a base consonant character to modify its inherent vowel into the long vocalic ll sound, contrasting with its short counterpart, the vowel sign vocalic l. This glyph is part of the Malayalam block in Unicode and is encoded at codepoint U+0D63, reflecting the script's capability to accurately render phonemes from ancient linguistic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D63 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic Ll |
| 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 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D63 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D63 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d63 |