U+095A "ग़" Devanagari Letter Ghha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ग़
U+095A "ग़" Devanagari Letter Ghha is a specialized consonant used in the Devanagari script to represent a voiced velar fricative sound, which is not typically found in standard Hindi but appears in transliterations of Arabic, Persian, and other foreign words. It is visually formed by placing a dot (nukta) beneath the standard Devanagari letter "ग" (ga), indicating a modified pronunciation. This character is essential for accurately writing words like "ग़रीब" (gharib, meaning poor) or "बाग़" (bagh, meaning garden) in languages such as Urdu, Kashmiri, or occasionally in scholarly transliterations, helping to preserve phonetic distinctions that the unadorned "ग" cannot convey.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+095A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ghha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ग" U+0917 Devanagari Letter Ga "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ग़ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ग़ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x095A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000095A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u095a |