U+091B "छ" Devanagari Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+091B "छ" Devanagari Letter Cha is a consonant in the Devanagari script used for languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, and Marathi, representing the aspirated voiceless palatal affricate sound /tʃʰ/. It is the sixth character in the Devanagari abugida, following च (Ca), and visually resembles a pair of downward-curving strokes topped with a horizontal head line and a small curl on the left. This letter forms the basis for various conjuncts and modified characters through the addition of diacritical marks, like the vowel signs that attach to its stem to create syllables such as छा (chha). In linguistic terms, it is classified as a high-frequency consonant in Hindi, commonly appearing in words like "छाता" (chhata, meaning umbrella) and "छोटा" (chhota, meaning small).

General Properties

Code Point U+091B
Version Added 1.1
Name Devanagari Letter Cha
Block Devanagari
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding छ
HTML Hex Encoding छ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xA4 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x091B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000091B
C/C++/Java Escape \u091b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Devanagari
Script Extensions Devanagari
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter