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Source: Noto Sans Tamil

U+0BCB Tamil Vowel Sign Oo

U+0BCB was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 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 a canonical composition of the glyphs Tamil Vowel Sign Ee, Tamil Vowel Sign Aa. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it is written from left to right. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+0BCB prohibits a line break before it. The glyph can be confused with one other glyph.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி Tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi [tamiɻ ˈaɾitːɕuʋaɽi]) 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. It is one of the official scripts of the Indian Republic. Certain minority languages such as Saurashtra, Badaga, Irula and Paniya are also written in the Tamil script.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	3019
UTF-8	E0 AF 8B
UTF-16	0B CB
UTF-32	00 00 0B CB
URL-Quoted	%E0%AF%8B
HTML hex reference	ோ
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	à¯‹

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Complete Record

Property	Value
Age (age)	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name (na)	TAMIL VOWEL SIGN OO
Unicode 1 Name (na1)	—
Block (blk)	Tamil
General Category (gc)	Spacing Mark
Script (sc)	Tamil
Bidirectional Category (bc)	Left To Right
Combining Class (ccc)	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type (dt)	canonical
Decomposition Mapping (dm)	Tamil Vowel Sign Ee Tamil Vowel Sign Aa
Lowercase (Lower)	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping (slc)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Lowercase Mapping (lc)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Uppercase (Upper)	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping (suc)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Uppercase Mapping (uc)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Simple Titlecase Mapping (stc)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Titlecase Mapping (tc)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Case Folding (cf)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
ASCII Hex Digit (AHex)	✘
Alphabetic (Alpha)	✔
Bidi Control (Bidi_C)	✘
Bidi Mirrored (Bidi_M)	✘
Composition Exclusion (CE)	✘
Case Ignorable (CI)	✘
Changes When Casefolded (CWCF)	✘
Changes When Casemapped (CWCM)	✘
Changes When NFKC Casefolded (CWKCF)	✘
Changes When Lowercased (CWL)	✘
Changes When Titlecased (CWT)	✘
Changes When Uppercased (CWU)	✘
Cased (Cased)	✘
Full Composition Exclusion (Comp_Ex)	✘
Default Ignorable Code Point (DI)	✘
Dash (Dash)	✘
Deprecated (Dep)	✘
Diacritic (Dia)	✘
Emoji Modifier Base (EBase)	✘
Emoji Component (EComp)	✘
Emoji Modifier (EMod)	✘
Emoji Presentation (EPres)	✘
Emoji (Emoji)	✘
Extender (Ext)	✘
Extended Pictographic (ExtPict)	✘
FC NFKC Closure (FC_NFKC)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Grapheme Cluster Break (GCB)	Spacing Mark
Grapheme Base (Gr_Base)	✔
Grapheme Extend (Gr_Ext)	✘
Grapheme Link (Gr_Link)	✘
Hex Digit (Hex)	✘
Hyphen (Hyphen)	✘
ID Continue (IDC)	✔
ID Start (IDS)	✘
IDS Binary Operator (IDSB)	✘
IDS Trinary Operator and (IDST)	✘
IDSU (IDSU)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Continue (ID_Compat_Math_Continue)	0
ID_Compat_Math_Start (ID_Compat_Math_Start)	0
Ideographic (Ideo)	✘
InCB (InCB)	None
Indic Mantra Category (InMC)	—
Indic Positional Category (InPC)	Left_And_Right
Indic Syllabic Category (InSC)	Vowel_Dependent
Jamo Short Name (JSN)	—
Join Control (Join_C)	✘
Logical Order Exception (LOE)	✘
Math (Math)	✘
Noncharacter Code Point (NChar)	✘
NFC Quick Check (NFC_QC)	Yes
NFD Quick Check (NFD_QC)	No
NFKC Casefold (NFKC_CF)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
NFKC Quick Check (NFKC_QC)	Yes
NFKC_SCF (NFKC_SCF)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
NFKD Quick Check (NFKD_QC)	No
Other Alphabetic (OAlpha)	✔
Other Default Ignorable Code Point (ODI)	✘
Other Grapheme Extend (OGr_Ext)	✘
Other ID Continue (OIDC)	✘
Other ID Start (OIDS)	✘
Other Lowercase (OLower)	✘
Other Math (OMath)	✘
Other Uppercase (OUpper)	✘
Prepended Concatenation Mark (PCM)	✘
Pattern Syntax (Pat_Syn)	✘
Pattern White Space (Pat_WS)	✘
Quotation Mark (QMark)	✘
Regional Indicator (RI)	✘
Radical (Radical)	✘
Sentence Break (SB)	Extend
Soft Dotted (SD)	✘
Sentence Terminal (STerm)	✘
Terminal Punctuation (Term)	✘
Unified Ideograph (UIdeo)	✘
Variation Selector (VS)	✘
Word Break (WB)	Extend
White Space (WSpace)	✘
XID Continue (XIDC)	✔
XID Start (XIDS)	✘
Expands On NFC (XO_NFC)	✘
Expands On NFD (XO_NFD)	✔
Expands On NFKC (XO_NFKC)	✘
Expands On NFKD (XO_NFKD)	✔
Bidi Paired Bracket (bpb)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Bidi Paired Bracket Type (bpt)	None
East Asian Width (ea)	neutral
Hangul Syllable Type (hst)	Not Applicable
ISO 10646 Comment (isc)	—
Joining Group (jg)	No_Joining_Group
Joining Type (jt)	Non Joining
Line Break (lb)	Combining Mark
Numeric Type (nt)	none
Numeric Value (nv)	not a number
Simple Case Folding (scf)	Tamil Vowel Sign Oo
Script Extension (scx)
Vertical Orientation (vo)	R