U+0CC8 "ೈ" Kannada Vowel Sign Ai Unicode Character
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U+0CC8 "ೈ" Kannada Vowel Sign Ai is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kannada script to represent the vowel sound "ai" when attached to a consonant. This character modifies the inherent vowel of a consonant base, transforming its pronunciation to the diphthong /ai/ and appears as an upward and backward sweeping symbol placed above and to the right of the consonant glyph. It is a crucial component of the Kannada orthography, enabling the accurate representation of words in the Dravidian language of Kannada, which is primarily spoken in the state of Karnataka, India.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0CC8
Name
Kannada Vowel Sign Ai
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ೈ
HTML Hex Encoding
ೈ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xB3 0x88
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0CC8
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000CC8
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0cc8
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Kannada