U+099D "ঝ" Bengali Letter Jha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ঝ
U+099D "ঝ" Bengali Letter Jha is the twenty-first character in the Bengali abugida, representing the voiced palato-alveolar affricate sound /dʒʱ/ or, in some contexts, a breathy-voiced aspirated /dʒ/. It belongs to the Bengali script block in Unicode and is used primarily in the Bengali and Assamese languages to write words like ঝড় (storm) and is often a component of compound consonants, such as in ঝঞ্ঝা (tempest). This character is derived from the Brahmi script lineage and is written with a distinctive curved top stroke and a hooked descending line.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+099D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Jha |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ঝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ঝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA6 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x099D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000099D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u099d |