Tamil Sign Virama

U+0BCD
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+0BCD
Decimal
3021
Plane
BMP — Basic Multilingual Plane
Category
Non-Spacing Mark (Mn)
Block
Tamil
Script
Tamil
Bidi class
NSM Non-Spacing Mark
Combining class
9
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 Sign Virama.

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Format Value
HTML Decimal
்
HTML Hex
்
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
E0 AF 8D
UTF-16 Hex Bytes
0B CD
UTF-32 Hex
00000BCD
CSS Escape
\BCD
JavaScript Escape
\u0BCD
Python Escape
\u0BCD
URL Encoded
%E0%AF%8D
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