Unicode Character "அ" (U+0B85)

The character அ (Tamil Letter A) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0B85. It is encoded in the Tamil block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual Plane. It was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (June, 1993). It is HTML encoded as அ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Tamil Letter A
Unicode Codepoint U+0B85
Unicode Version 1.1 (June, 1993)
Block Tamil
Plane Basic Multilingual Plane

Bidirectional Data

Bidirectional class Left To Right (L)
Is mirrored? No

Other Unicode Data

Category Other Letter
Script Tamil
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0B85 Conversion

HTML (decimal) அ
HTML (hex) அ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%AE%85
CSS \000B85
JavaScript, JSON \u0B85
C, C++, Java \u0B85
Python \u0B85
Rust \u{0B85}
Ruby \u0B85

How to type "அ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 B 8 5. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 B 8 5. Release Alt.

Preview

  • அ
    Times, Times New Roman, serif
  • அ
    Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
  • அ
    Courier, Courier New, monospace

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xAE 0x85
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0B85
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000B85

References