U+0BB6 TAMIL LETTER SHA

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Decimal / Nº
2998
General Category
Block
Script
Bidi Category
Left-To-Right
East Asian Width
no designated width
Combining Class
Not Reordered
Decomposition
not a composition

Character Details

The Unicode character U+0BB6, officially named TAMIL LETTER SHA, was introduced in Unicode version 4.1. It is part of the Tamil block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane.

Categorized technically as a Other Letter, this character typically falls under the Taml script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.

Representations & Encodings

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2998 Copied!
UTF-8 E0 AE B6 Copied!
UTF-16 0B B6 Copied!
UTF-32 00 00 0B B6 Copied!
URL-Quoted %E0%AE%B6 Copied!
HTML hex reference ஶ Copied!
RFC 5137 \u'0BB6' Copied!
Bash and Zsh (inside echo -e) \u0BB6 Copied!
C and C++ \u0bb6 Copied!
C# \u0bb6 Copied!
CSS \000BB6 Copied!
Excel =UNICHAR(2998) Copied!
Go \u0bb6 Copied!
JavaScript \u0BB6 Copied!
Modern JavaScript (since ES6) \u{0bb6} Copied!
JSON \u0BB6 Copied!
Java \u0BB6 Copied!
Lua \u{0BB6} Copied!
Matlab char(2998) Copied!
Perl \x{0BB6} Copied!
PHP \u{0bb6} Copied!
PostgreSQL U&'\0BB6' Copied!
PowerShell `u{0BB6} Copied!
Python \u0bb6 Copied!
Ruby \u{0bb6} Copied!
Rust \u{0bb6} Copied!