Tamil Vowel Sign Aa

U+0BBE
BMP Unicode 1.1
Character
Decimal ா
Hex ா

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+0BBE
Decimal
3006
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Spacing Mark (Mc)
Block
Tamil
Script
Tamil
Bidi class
L Left-to-Right
East Asian Width
N Narrow
Properties
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Looks Like (Confusables)

Characters that are visually similar — relevant for security, font design, and homoglyph detection.

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 Vowel Sign Aa.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
ா
HTML Hex
ா
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E0 AE BE
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
0B BE
UTF-32 Hex
00000BBE
CSS Escape
\BBE
JavaScript Escape
\u0BBE
Python Escape
\u0BBE
URL Encoded
%E0%AE%BE
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Characters That Include This

These characters decompose to a sequence that includes Tamil Vowel Sign Aa as a component. They are effectively precomposed versions or compounds built on this base character.