U+0D62 "ൢ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic L Unicode Character

U+0D62 "ൢ" Malayalam Vowel Sign Vocalic L is a combining diacritical mark used in the Malayalam script to represent a vocalic or syllabic 'l' sound, specifically a vowel that functions as a syllable nucleus, which is a feature inherited from the grammar of Sanskrit and occurs primarily in transliterated Sanskrit loanwords. This character is placed after a base consonant character to modify its vowel sound into a short vocalic L, and it is part of a set of historic vowel signs that are now rarely used in modern Malayalam but remain important for accurate textual representation and scholarship.