ോ

ോ

ോ U+0D4B, ോ MALAYALAM VOWEL SIGN OO Composition: േ [U+0D47] + ാ [U+0D3E] ← ൊ [U+0D4A] Malayalam ൌ → [U+0D4C]

Malayalam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oː/

Letter

ോ • (ോ)

1. The combining form of the long vowel ഓ (ō, “ō”).

Usage notes

• This letter is actually a pair which sandwiches the consonant it modifies.
• It is sometimes erroneously transliterated as ēā instead of correct o by analogy with diacritics representing ē and ā (see above), for example, in Google Translate, thus, തോൽ (tōl, “birk”) could be also transliterated as tēāl. This feature, subtituting ō with ēā, however, has been inherited from its ancestor script Pallava.[1]

Meronyms

• േ (U+0D47)
• ാ (U+0D3E)

See also

• ൊ
• ൗ
• ൌ (obsolete vowel symbol for short vowel ഔ)

References

1. Pallava