ோ
«ோ» is diacritic of Tamil, the “Tamil script” script, read as “-oo”. Long 'o': கோ — 'koo'. The Tamil alphabet has 49 letters in total, and this character can be played right here. On a carrier the character looks like this: கோ. It appears, for example, in the word “போயிட்டு வாறேன்” — goodbye.
In short
| Character | ோ |
| Sound | -oo |
| What it is | diacritic |
| On the carrier | கோ |
In our course the character comes 47th of 49: the order here is not alphabetical but from familiar to unfamiliar, its neighbours in the course are ொ and ௌ, appears in 324 words of this site.
How it sounds
Long 'o': கோ — 'koo'
The character in the “the vowel signs and the pulli” group
Shown on க (ka): a vowel sign is not written on its own. From கா the 'k' must be subtracted in one's head — and the very vowel the sign means remains. The signs 'e', 'ee' and 'ai' are written to the left of the letter although they sound after it, and 'u' and 'uu' fuse with it into a new sign.
Words with this character
- போயிட்டு வாறேன்pōyiṭṭu vāṟēṉgoodbye
- ஆட்டோāṭṭōtuk-tuk
- போறேன்pōṟēṉto go
- கிலோkilōkilogram
- போதும்pōdumenough
- சோப்புsōppusoap
- கெட்டுப் போச்சுkeṭṭup pōccuit broke down
- இரத்தப் பரிசோதனைirattap parisōdaṉaiblood test
- பாஸ்போர்ட்டைக் காணோம்pāspōrṭṭaik kāṇōmI have lost my passport
- கோடை காலம்kōḍai kālamsummer
- போன வருஷம்pōṉa varuṣamlast year
- சந்திப்போம்sandippōmwe will meet
How to remember this character
A single letter is the hardest thing to remember: memory has nothing to hold on to — a character has no meaning. A three-step loop works: see the character, try to recall the sound, see the right answer.
And come back to it the next day, not in an hour: a check a day or two later beats a check the same day. Nobody holds the whole alphabet — 49 letters — at once.
- It is better to test yourself the next day than at the end of the same session. That is why a word comes back to you tomorrow.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · g = 0.82 when tested a day or two later, against 0.56 on the same day.
- Studying a little every day gets more into your head than spending the same total time in one sitting.checked many timesDonovan & Radosevich, 1999, Journal of Applied Psychology 84(5) · 63 studies compared, difference d = 0.46 — a sizeable figure for a learning effect.
Frequently asked
How does the Tamil character ோ read?
As “-oo” — it is diacritic of the “Tamil script” script. Long 'o': கோ — 'koo'.