U+0A9C "જ" Gujarati Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
જ
U+0A9C "જ" Gujarati Letter Ja is the twenty-first consonant of the Gujarati script, representing the voiced palatal plosive sound /dʒ/ as in the English word "jam." It is used extensively in the Gujarati language, which is spoken by over 50 million people primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat, and appears in common words such as "જળ" (jaḷ, meaning water) and "જવ" (jav, meaning barley). While its shape is distinct and curved, reminiscent of an open hook or a stylized numeral four, it belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and shares a common origin with Devanagari's letter ज.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A9C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Ja |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | જ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | જ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAA 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a9c |