The Kannada script is used for the Kannada language (formerly known as Canarese), which belongs to the Dravidian group and is the majority language of the Indian State of Karnataka. You can see some Unicode Kannada on the Kannadasaahithya.com Web site and on Xenotype’s Kannada Unicode Sample page.
Microsoft Windows incorporates support for Kannada Unicode from Windows XP onwards.
For users of Macintosh OS X 10.2, a commercial Kannada Language Kit with a Unicode font and 2 keyboard layouts is available from XenoType Technologies, and Nicholas Shanks has produced a free Kannada Font & Keyboard Layout.
The characters that appear in the first column of the following table depend on the browser that you are using, the fonts installed on your computer, and the browser options you have chosen that determine the fonts used to display particular character sets, encodings or languages.
You can find some or all of the characters in this range in the Windows Unicode fonts Akshar Unicode, Arial Unicode MS, Code2000, JanaKannada, Kedage, Mallige, Sampige, Saraswati5, Sun-ExtA and Tunga; and in the Macintosh OS X Unicode font Kedage.
To see exactly which characters are included in a particular font, you can use a utility such as Andrew West’s BabelMap, or WunderMoosen’s FontChecker.
If you are not familiar with the characters, you can check the characters displayed here with the graphical display at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0C80.pdf.
Character (decimal) | Decimal | Character (hex) | Hex | Name |
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ಲಁ | 3201 | ಲಁ | 0C81 | KANNADA SIGN CANDRABINDU (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲಂ | 3202 | ಲಂ | 0C82 | KANNADA SIGN ANUSVARA (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲಃ | 3203 | ಲಃ | 0C83 | KANNADA SIGN VISARGA (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಅ | 3205 | ಅ | 0C85 | KANNADA LETTER A |
ಆ | 3206 | ಆ | 0C86 | KANNADA LETTER AA |
ಇ | 3207 | ಇ | 0C87 | KANNADA LETTER I |
ಈ | 3208 | ಈ | 0C88 | KANNADA LETTER II |
ಉ | 3209 | ಉ | 0C89 | KANNADA LETTER U |
ಊ | 3210 | ಊ | 0C8A | KANNADA LETTER UU |
ಋ | 3211 | ಋ | 0C8B | KANNADA LETTER VOCALIC R |
ಌ | 3212 | ಌ | 0C8C | KANNADA LETTER VOCALIC L |
ಎ | 3214 | ಎ | 0C8E | KANNADA LETTER E |
ಏ | 3215 | ಏ | 0C8F | KANNADA LETTER EE |
ಐ | 3216 | ಐ | 0C90 | KANNADA LETTER AI |
ಒ | 3218 | ಒ | 0C92 | KANNADA LETTER O |
ಓ | 3219 | ಓ | 0C93 | KANNADA LETTER OO |
ಔ | 3220 | ಔ | 0C94 | KANNADA LETTER AU |
ಕ | 3221 | ಕ | 0C95 | KANNADA LETTER KA |
ಖ | 3222 | ಖ | 0C96 | KANNADA LETTER KHA |
ಗ | 3223 | ಗ | 0C97 | KANNADA LETTER GA |
ಘ | 3224 | ಘ | 0C98 | KANNADA LETTER GHA |
ಙ | 3225 | ಙ | 0C99 | KANNADA LETTER NGA |
ಚ | 3226 | ಚ | 0C9A | KANNADA LETTER CA |
ಛ | 3227 | ಛ | 0C9B | KANNADA LETTER CHA |
ಜ | 3228 | ಜ | 0C9C | KANNADA LETTER JA |
ಝ | 3229 | ಝ | 0C9D | KANNADA LETTER JHA |
ಞ | 3230 | ಞ | 0C9E | KANNADA LETTER NYA |
ಟ | 3231 | ಟ | 0C9F | KANNADA LETTER TTA |
ಠ | 3232 | ಠ | 0CA0 | KANNADA LETTER TTHA |
ಡ | 3233 | ಡ | 0CA1 | KANNADA LETTER DDA |
ಢ | 3234 | ಢ | 0CA2 | KANNADA LETTER DDHA |
ಣ | 3235 | ಣ | 0CA3 | KANNADA LETTER NNA |
ತ | 3236 | ತ | 0CA4 | KANNADA LETTER TA |
ಥ | 3237 | ಥ | 0CA5 | KANNADA LETTER THA |
ದ | 3238 | ದ | 0CA6 | KANNADA LETTER DA |
ಧ | 3239 | ಧ | 0CA7 | KANNADA LETTER DHA |
ನ | 3240 | ನ | 0CA8 | KANNADA LETTER NA |
ಪ | 3242 | ಪ | 0CAA | KANNADA LETTER PA |
ಫ | 3243 | ಫ | 0CAB | KANNADA LETTER PHA |
ಬ | 3244 | ಬ | 0CAC | KANNADA LETTER BA |
ಭ | 3245 | ಭ | 0CAD | KANNADA LETTER BHA |
ಮ | 3246 | ಮ | 0CAE | KANNADA LETTER MA |
ಯ | 3247 | ಯ | 0CAF | KANNADA LETTER YA |
ರ | 3248 | ರ | 0CB0 | KANNADA LETTER RA |
ಱ | 3249 | ಱ | 0CB1 | KANNADA LETTER RRA |
ಲ | 3250 | ಲ | 0CB2 | KANNADA LETTER LA |
ಳ | 3251 | ಳ | 0CB3 | KANNADA LETTER LLA |
ವ | 3253 | ವ | 0CB5 | KANNADA LETTER VA |
ಶ | 3254 | ಶ | 0CB6 | KANNADA LETTER SHA |
ಷ | 3255 | ಷ | 0CB7 | KANNADA LETTER SSA |
ಸ | 3256 | ಸ | 0CB8 | KANNADA LETTER SA |
ಹ | 3257 | ಹ | 0CB9 | KANNADA LETTER HA |
ಲ಼ | 3260 | ಲ಼ | 0CBC | KANNADA SIGN NUKTA (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಽ | 3261 | ಽ | 0CBD | KANNADA SIGN AVAGRAHA |
ಲಾ | 3262 | ಲಾ | 0CBE | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN AA (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲಿ | 3263 | ಲಿ | 0CBF | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN I (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೀ | 3264 | ಲೀ | 0CC0 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN II (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲು | 3265 | ಲು | 0CC1 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN U (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೂ | 3266 | ಲೂ | 0CC2 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN UU (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೃ | 3267 | ಲೃ | 0CC3 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC R (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೄ | 3268 | ಲೄ | 0CC4 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC RR (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೆ | 3270 | ಲೆ | 0CC6 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN E (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೇ | 3271 | ಲೇ | 0CC7 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN EE (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೈ | 3272 | ಲೈ | 0CC8 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN AI (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೊ | 3274 | ಲೊ | 0CCA | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN O (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೋ | 3275 | ಲೋ | 0CCB | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN OO (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೌ | 3276 | ಲೌ | 0CCC | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN AU (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲ್ | 3277 | ಲ್ | 0CCD | KANNADA SIGN VIRAMA (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೕ | 3285 | ಲೕ | 0CD5 | KANNADA LENGTH MARK (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೖ | 3286 | ಲೖ | 0CD6 | KANNADA AI LENGTH MARK (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ೞ | 3294 | ೞ | 0CDE | KANNADA LETTER FA |
ೠ | 3296 | ೠ | 0CE0 | KANNADA LETTER VOCALIC RR |
ೡ | 3297 | ೡ | 0CE1 | KANNADA LETTER VOCALIC LL |
ಲೢ | 3298 | ಲೢ | 0CE2 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC L (combined with la (ಲ)) |
ಲೣ | 3299 | ಲೣ | 0CE3 | KANNADA VOWEL SIGN VOCALIC LL (combined with la (ಲ)) |
೦ | 3302 | ೦ | 0CE6 | KANNADA DIGIT ZERO |
೧ | 3303 | ೧ | 0CE7 | KANNADA DIGIT ONE |
೨ | 3304 | ೨ | 0CE8 | KANNADA DIGIT TWO |
೩ | 3305 | ೩ | 0CE9 | KANNADA DIGIT THREE |
೪ | 3306 | ೪ | 0CEA | KANNADA DIGIT FOUR |
೫ | 3307 | ೫ | 0CEB | KANNADA DIGIT FIVE |
೬ | 3308 | ೬ | 0CEC | KANNADA DIGIT SIX |
೭ | 3309 | ೭ | 0CED | KANNADA DIGIT SEVEN |
೮ | 3310 | ೮ | 0CEE | KANNADA DIGIT EIGHT |
೯ | 3311 | ೯ | 0CEF | KANNADA DIGIT NINE |
ೱ | 3313 | ೱ | 0CF1 | KANNADA SIGN JIHVAMULIYA |
ೲ | 3314 | ೲ | 0CF2 | KANNADA SIGN UPADHMANIYA |
Copyright © 1999–2014 Alan Wood
The hexadecimal numbers and the character names in the above table are taken from the Unicode 7.0.0 Character Database, Copyright © 1991–2014 Unicode, Inc., as contained in UnicodeData.txt on the Unicode ftp site (ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/) in October 2014.
Created 3rd February 1999 Last updated 28th October 2014