U+091D "झ" Devanagari Letter Jha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
झ
U+091D "झ" Devanagari Letter Jha is a character used in the Devanagari script, representing the aspirated voiced palatal affricate sound /dʒʱ/ that occurs in languages such as Hindi, Sanskrit, Nepali, and Marathi. It is the ninth consonant in the Devanagari arrangement of the velar and palatal series and is visually constructed by adding a horizontal bar and a vertical stem with a curved hook to the base of the letter ज "Ja". This character appears as the second element in the aspirated pair with ज, and it is commonly employed in writing words that contain the "jh" sound, such as the Hindi word झंडा (jhaṇḍā) meaning "flag".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+091D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Jha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | झ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | झ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x091D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000091D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u091d |