U+097B "ॻ" Devanagari Letter Gga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ॻ
U+097B "ॻ" Devanagari Letter Gga is a specialized consonant used primarily in the Sindhi language and occasionally in other South Asian languages to represent a voiced velar implosive sound, which is distinct from the standard Devanagari "ग" (ga). This character is part of the Devanagari Extended block and is visually formed by adding a small hook or tail to the regular Devanagari "ग" to indicate its implosive articulation. It enables accurate transliteration and writing of specific phonetic nuances in languages that employ the Devanagari script but require additional glyphs beyond the standard set.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+097B |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Gga |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॻ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॻ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x097B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000097B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u097b |