U+0979 "ॹ" Devanagari Letter Zha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ॹ
U+0979 "ॹ" Devanagari Letter Zha is a rare or archaic letter used primarily in transliterating foreign sounds and words into the Devanagari script, particularly for representing a voiced postalveolar fricative or similar sound that does not naturally occur in standard Sanskrit or modern Hindi. It appears in scholarly texts, such as transcriptions of Persian, Arabic, or other languages that contain the "zh" sound, as in the word "bazaar" or "Zhivago". Unlike standard Devanagari consonants, this character is not part of everyday use and is often employed in linguistic or historical contexts to accurately represent phonetic distinctions from other languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0979 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Zha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0979 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000979 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0979 |