U+0D7F "ൿ" Malayalam Letter Chillu K Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0D7F "ൿ" Malayalam Letter Chillu K is a special consonant form in the Malayalam script used to represent a pure, vowel-less "k" sound at the end of a syllable, functioning as a chillu letter that replaces the standard consonant sign when no inherent vowel is intended. This character is part of a set of chillu letters that were added to the Unicode standard in version 9.0 to properly encode traditional Malayalam typography and orthography, which historically used a visible vowel sign chandrakkala to indicate the absence of a vowel. Its inclusion ensures accurate digital representation of literary and modern Malayalam texts where such syllable-final consonants appear.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D7F |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Chillu K |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ൿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ൿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB5 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D7F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d7f |