U+0917 "ग" Devanagari Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ग
U+0917 "ग" Devanagari Letter Ga is the third consonant of the Devanagari script, representing the voiced velar plosive sound /ɡə/, which is used primarily in languages such as Hindi, Marathi, and Sanskrit to form words like “गाना” (gānā, meaning song) and “गणेश” (Gaṇeśa, the Hindu deity). This character is encoded in the UTF-8 and other Unicode transformation formats and can be combined with vowel signs or other diacritics to produce a wide range of modified syllables in written texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0917 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ga |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ग |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ग |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0917 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000917 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0917 |