U+0A95 "ક" Gujarati Letter Ka Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0A95 "ક" Gujarati Letter Ka is the first consonant of the Gujarati script, representing the sound "ka" as in the English word "skate." It belongs to the Gujarati block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the writing system used for the Gujarati language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat. This character is a syllabic base letter, typically combined with vowel signs to form full syllables in written Gujarati, and it plays a fundamental role in the alphabet for representing words ranging from everyday vocabulary to ancient literary texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+0A95
Version Added 1.1
Name Gujarati Letter Ka
Block Gujarati
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ક
HTML Hex Encoding ક
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xAA 0x95
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0A95
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000A95
C/C++/Java Escape \u0a95

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Gujarati
Script Extensions Gujarati
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter