Tamil Letter Va

U+0BB5
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal வ
Hex வ

Classification

Unicode properties assigned to this character by the Unicode Consortium. The codepoint is its unique numeric identifier. Category, block, and script determine how text systems render and process it.

Codepoint
U+0BB5
Decimal
2997
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Other Letter (Lo)
Block
Tamil
Script
Tamil
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
Alphabetic ID Start ID Continue

Encodings & Escape Sequences

Every Unicode character can be represented in multiple ways depending on context. HTML entities let you embed it safely in web pages. UTF-8 bytes are what gets stored on disk and sent over the network. Escape sequences let you reference it in source code without pasting the raw glyph. All formats below refer to the same character — Tamil Letter Va.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
வ
HTML Hex
வ
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E0 AE B5
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
0B B5
UTF-32 Hex
00000BB5
CSS Escape
\BB5
JavaScript Escape
\u0BB5
Python Escape
\u0BB5
URL Encoded
%E0%AE%B5
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