Unicode Character "ை" (U+0BC8)

The character ை (Tamil Vowel Sign Ai) is represented by the Unicode codepoint U+0BC8. 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 Ai
Unicode Codepoint U+0BC8
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+0BC8 Conversion

HTML (decimal) ை
HTML (hex) ை
HTML (named) -
URL Escape Code %E0%AF%88
CSS \000BC8
JavaScript, JSON \u0BC8
C, C++, Java \u0BC8
Python \u0BC8
Rust \u{0BC8}
Ruby \u0BC8

How to type "ை"

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

Preview

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

UTF Encodings

UTF-8 (hex) 0xE0 0xAF 0x88
UTF-16 (hex) 0x0BC8
UTF-32 (hex) 0x00000BC8

References