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U+0BCD COMBINING MARK

TAMIL SIGN VIRAMA

Preview uses dotted circle base (◌) for visibility. Clipboard copy copies only the raw diacritic mark.

Quick Facts

Unicode Name TAMIL SIGN VIRAMA
Code Point U+0BCD
Decimal Value 3021
General Category Nonspacing Mark (Mn) →
Unicode Block Tamil →
Script Tamil →
Unicode Version Unicode 1.1 →
Unicode Plane Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 3 bytes E0 AF 8D
UTF-16 Code Unit 0BCD
UTF-32 4 bytes 00000BCD
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 0B CD LE: CD 0B
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 00 0B CD LE: CD 0B 00 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal ்
HTML Hexadecimal ்
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \000BCD
JavaScript (ES6) \u0BCD
JavaScript (UTF-16) \u0BCD
JSON Escape \u0BCD
Python \u0BCD
PHP "\u{BCD}"
Java "\u0BCD"
C / C++ "\u0BCD"
Rust '\u{bcd}'
URL Percent-Encoded %E0%AF%8D

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 9Virama
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class NSMNonspacing Mark
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+0BCD across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
◌்
Context: A ◌் Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
◌்
Context: A ◌் Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
◌்
Context: A ◌் Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
◌்
Context: A ◌் Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name TAMIL SIGN VIRAMA

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+0BCD

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