U+0D4D Malayalam Sign Virama
U+0D4D was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Malayalam in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Nonspacing Mark and is mainly used in the Malayalam script. The character is also known as candrakkala (the preferred name) and vowel half-u.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Nonspacing Mark and is not mirrored. The glyph can, under circumstances, be confused with 9 other glyphs. In text U+0D4D 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:
Malayalam script (Malayāḷalipi; IPA: [mɐlɐjäːɭɐ libi] / Malayalam: മലയാളലിപി) is a Brahmic script used commonly to write Malayalam, which is the principal language of Kerala, India, spoken by 45 million people in the world. It is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India Malayalam script is also widely used for writing Sanskrit texts in Kerala.
The Malayalam script bears high similarity with Tigalari script, which was used for writing the Tulu language, spoken in coastal Karnataka (Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts) and the northernmost Kasargod district of Kerala. Like many other Indic scripts, it is an alphasyllabary (abugida), a writing system that is partially “alphabetic” and partially syllable-based. The modern Malayalam alphabet has 15 vowel letters, 42 consonant letters, and a few other symbols. The Malayalam script is a Vatteluttu alphabet extended with symbols from the Grantha alphabet to represent Indo-Aryan loanwords. The script is also used to write several minority languages such as Paniya, Betta Kurumba, and Ravula. The Malayalam language itself was historically written in several different scripts.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 3405 |
| UTF-8 | E0 B5 8D |
| UTF-16 | 0D 4D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 0D 4D |
| URL-Quoted | %E0%B5%8D |
| HTML hex reference | ് |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ◌ൠ|
| alias | candrakkala (the preferred name) |
| alias | vowel half-u |
Related Characters
Confusables
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| MALAYALAM SIGN VIRAMA | |
| — | |
| Malayalam | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Malayalam | |
| Nonspacing Mark | |
| Virama | |
| None | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| ✘ | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| ✘ | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| — | |
| Top | |
| Virama | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Extend | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Transparent | |
| Combining Mark | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| Malayalam Sign Virama | |
| R |