Unicode Character "ெ" (U+0BC6)

The character ெ (Tamil Vowel Sign E) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0BC6. 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 ெ.

Main Unicode Properties

Name Tamil Vowel Sign E
Unicode Codepoint U+0BC6
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 Spacing Mark
Script Tamil
Combining Class Not Reordered

U+0BC6 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ெ
HTML (hex) ெ
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%AF%86
CSS \000BC6
JavaScript, JSON \u0BC6
C, C++, Java \u0BC6
Python \u0BC6
Rust \u{0BC6}
Ruby \u0BC6

How to type "ெ"

  • Windows ?: Hold Alt, then type 0 B C 6. Release Alt.
  • Mac ?: Hold Alt ⌥, then type 0 B C 6. Release Alt.

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xAF 0x86
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0BC6
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000BC6

Characters based on "ெ" (U+0BC6)

References