U+0A2A "ਪ" Gurmukhi Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਪ
U+0A2A "ਪ" Gurmukhi Letter Pa is the thirty fifth consonant of the Gurmukhi script, representing the voiceless bilabial plosive sound /p/ as in the English word "spin." It is used primarily in the Punjabi language, where it forms a fundamental part of the Gurmukhi alphabet and is integral to writing both native and borrowed words. This character belongs to the Gurmukhi Unicode block and is typically encoded for digital text in languages such as Punjabi, where it appears in religious, literary, and everyday communication, including in the sacred scripture of Sikhism, the Guru Granth Sahib.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A2A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter Pa |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA8 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a2a |