U+0BE8 TAMIL DIGIT TWO: ௨ – Unicode

U+0BE8 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 Decimal Number and is mainly used in the Tamil script. It is also used in the script Grantha. The codepoint has the Decimal value 2.

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+0BE8 behaves as Numeric regarding line breaks. It has type Numeric for sentence and Numeric for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.

The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:

2 (two) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 1 and preceding 3. It is the smallest and only even prime number. Because it forms the basis of a duality, it has religious and spiritual significance in many cultures.

Representations

System	Representation
Nº	3048
UTF-8	E0 AF A8
UTF-16	0B E8
UTF-32	00 00 0B E8
URL-Quoted	%E0%AF%A8
HTML-Escape	௨
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake	à¯¨

Related Characters

Confusables

Tamil Letter U

Elsewhere

Complete Record

Property	Value
Age	1.1 (1993)
Unicode Name	TAMIL DIGIT TWO
Unicode 1 Name	—
Block	Tamil
General Category	Decimal Number
Script	Tamil
Bidirectional Category	Left To Right
Combining Class	Not Reordered
Decomposition Type	None
Decomposition Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Lowercase	✘
Simple Lowercase Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Lowercase Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Uppercase	✘
Simple Uppercase Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Uppercase Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Simple Titlecase Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Titlecase Mapping	Tamil Digit Two
Case Folding	Tamil Digit Two
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	Tamil Digit Two
Grapheme Cluster Break	Any
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	NA
Indic Syllabic Category	Number
Jamo Short Name	—
Join Control	✘
Logical Order Exception	✘
Math	✘
Noncharacter Code Point	✘
NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Casefold	Tamil Digit Two
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
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	Numeric
Soft Dotted	✘
Sentence Terminal	✘
Terminal Punctuation	✘
Unified Ideograph	✘
Variation Selector	✘
Word Break	Numeric
White Space	✘
XID Continue	✔
XID Start	✘
Expands On NFC	✘
Expands On NFD	✘
Expands On NFKC	✘
Expands On NFKD	✘
Bidi Paired Bracket	Tamil Digit Two
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	Numeric
Numeric Type	Decimal
Numeric Value	2
Simple Case Folding	Tamil Digit Two
Script Extension	Grantha
Vertical Orientation	R