U+0D40 "ീ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Ii Unicode Character

U+0D40 "ീ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Ii is a combining diacritic mark used in the Malayalam script to represent the long vowel sound "ii," which is equivalent to the letter "I" with a macron (ī) in transliteration. It is always placed to the right of a consonant character, modifying the consonant's inherent vowel sound to produce the long i sound. This vowel sign is essential for writing many words in the Malayalam language, such as "നീ" (nī, meaning "you"), and functions as the dependent form of the independent vowel letter "ഈ" (U+0D08).