U+0918 "घ" Devanagari Letter Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
घ
U+0918 "घ" Devanagari Letter Gha is the fourth consonant of the Devanagari script, representing a voiced velar plosive sound, akin to the 'gh' in the English word "ghost", though articulated from the back of the throat. It is a key component in writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, and forms the aspirated counterpart to the unaspirated consonant "ग" (ga). Visually, the character resembles its base form "ग" with an added horizontal stroke and a small tail, distinguishing it as a distinct phoneme in the abugida writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0918 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Gha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | घ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | घ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0918 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000918 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0918 |