U+0D7C "ർ" Malayalam Letter Chillu Rr Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0D7C "ർ" Malayalam Letter Chillu Rr is a unique glyph in the Malayalam script used to represent a pure, vowel-less consonant sound, specifically the retroflex 'r' sound, without an inherent vowel, and it belongs to the category of "chillu" letters which are special characters formed from consonant signs that have lost their vowel component, often appearing at the end of words or in transcribed foreign terms, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support the correct digital representation of the Malayalam language.

General Properties

Code Point U+0D7C
Version Added 5.1
Name Malayalam Letter Chillu Rr
Block Malayalam
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ർ
HTML Hex Encoding ർ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB5 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0D7C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000D7C
C/C++/Java Escape \u0d7c

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Malayalam
Script Extensions Malayalam
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Dead
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter