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Glyph for U+0BBE
Source: Noto Sans Tamil

U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa

U+0BBE was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block U+0B80 to U+0BFF Tamil in the U+0000 to U+FFFF Basic Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Spacing Mark and is mainly used in the Tamil script.

The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Left To Right and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 1 other glyphs. In text U+0BBE behaves as Combining Mark regarding line breaks. It has type Extend for sentence and Extend for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Extend.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi], pronunciation ) is an abugida script that is used by Tamils and Tamil speakers in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and elsewhere to write the Tamil language. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Badaga, Irula and Paniya are also written in the Tamil script.

Representations

System Representation
Nº 3006
UTF-8 E0 AE BE
UTF-16 0B BE
UTF-32 00 00 0B BE
URL-Quoted %E0%AE%BE
HTML hex reference ா
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake ா

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Complete Record

Property Value
Age 1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name TAMIL VOWEL SIGN AA
Unicode 1 Name —
Block Tamil
General Category Spacing Mark
Script Tamil
Bidirectional Category Left To Right
Combining Class Not Reordered
Decomposition Type None
Decomposition Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Lowercase ✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Lowercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Uppercase ✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Uppercase Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Simple Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Titlecase Mapping Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Case Folding Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
ASCII Hex Digit ✘
Alphabetic ✔
Bidi Control ✘
Bidi Mirrored ✘
Composition Exclusion ✘
Case Ignorable ✘
Changes When Casefolded ✘
Changes When Casemapped ✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded ✘
Changes When Lowercased ✘
Changes When Titlecased ✘
Changes When Uppercased ✘
Cased ✘
Full Composition Exclusion ✘
Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Dash ✘
Deprecated ✘
Diacritic ✘
Emoji Modifier Base ✘
Emoji Component ✘
Emoji Modifier ✘
Emoji Presentation ✘
Emoji ✘
Extender ✘
Extended Pictographic ✘
FC NFKC Closure Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Grapheme Base ✘
Grapheme Extend ✔
Grapheme Link ✘
Hex Digit ✘
Hyphen ✘
ID Continue ✔
ID Start ✘
IDS Binary Operator ✘
IDS Trinary Operator and ✘
Ideographic ✘
Indic Mantra Category —
Indic Positional Category Right
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel_Dependent
Jamo Short Name —
Join Control ✘
Logical Order Exception ✘
Math ✘
Noncharacter Code Point ✘
NFC Quick Check Maybe
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Casefold Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
NFKC Quick Check Maybe
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Other Alphabetic ✔
Other Default Ignorable Code Point ✘
Other Grapheme Extend ✔
Other ID Continue ✘
Other ID Start ✘
Other Lowercase ✘
Other Math ✘
Other Uppercase ✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark ✘
Pattern Syntax ✘
Pattern White Space ✘
Quotation Mark ✘
Regional Indicator ✘
Radical ✘
Sentence Break Extend
Soft Dotted ✘
Sentence Terminal ✘
Terminal Punctuation ✘
Unified Ideograph ✘
Variation Selector ✘
Word Break Extend
White Space ✘
XID Continue ✔
XID Start ✘
Expands On NFC ✘
Expands On NFD ✘
Expands On NFKC ✘
Expands On NFKD ✘
Bidi Paired Bracket Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Bidi Paired Bracket Type None
East Asian Width Neutral
Hangul Syllable Type Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment —
Joining Group No_Joining_Group
Joining Type Non Joining
Line Break Combining Mark
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value not a number
Simple Case Folding Glyph for U+0BBE Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Script Extension
Vertical Orientation R