U+0915 "क" Devanagari Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
क
U+0915 "क" Devanagari Letter Ka is the first consonant of the Devanagari script, representing the unaspirated velar plosive sound /k/ as in the English word "skate." It serves as a fundamental building block in writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, where it often appears in its basic form or combined with vowel diacritics to produce syllables like का (kaa) or कि (ki). The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Devanagari block, enabling consistent digital representation and processing across platforms and applications worldwide.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0915 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ka |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | क |
| HTML Hex Encoding | क |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0915 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000915 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0915 |