ോ

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

Malayalam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oː/

Letter

ോ • (ō)

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

Usage notes

• This letter is actually a pair which sandwiches the consonant .
• 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”) was transliterated as tēāl (it is now discarded since the romanization scheme has been changed). This feature, subtituting ō with ēā, however, has been inherited from its ancestor script Pallava.

Meronyms

• േ (U+0D47)
• ാ (U+0D3E)

See also

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