U+091D "झ" Devanagari Letter Jha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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