U+0939 "ह" Devanagari Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ह
U+0939 "ह" Devanagari Letter Ha is the thirty-third consonant in the Devanagari script, representing an aspirated glottal fricative sound /ɦə/ in languages like Hindi, Marathi, and Nepali. It is a velar and glottal consonant used in many common words, such as "हिंदी" (Hindi) and "हाथ" (hand). In the Unicode standard, it is part of the Devanagari block, encoded under the Basic Multilingual Plane for digital text representation. Its typical vowel sign is "ा" to modify sounds, and it serves as a ligature base for conjunct characters like "्ह".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0939 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ह |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ह |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0939 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000939 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0939 |