U+0A1A "ਚ" Gurmukhi Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਚ
U+0A1A "ਚ" Gurmukhi Letter Ca is a character in the Gurmukhi script, primarily used for writing the Punjabi language. It represents the voiceless palatal affricate sound /tʃ/, similar to the English "ch" in "church". In the Gurmukhi alphabet, it belongs to the group of consonants and is related to other characters that share its phonetic class, such as the aspirated form "ਛ". This letter plays a key role in the orthography of Punjabi, appearing in common words like "ਚਾਹ" (chāh, meaning tea) and is used in both religious and secular texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A1A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter Ca |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA8 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a1a |