U+0AF9 "ૹ" Gujarati Letter Zha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ૹ
U+0AF9 "ૹ" Gujarati Letter Zha is a relatively recent addition to the Gujarati script, specifically encoded in Unicode version 13.0 in 2020 to represent the sound /ʒ/ which is not native to standard Gujarati but is used for transcribing words from other languages, such as English, Persian, and Sanskrit borrowings. It is visually formed by adding a diacritic-like dot or nukta above the character for "Ja" (જ), similar to how "Za" (઼) is derived from "Da". This letter primarily appears in transliterations and technical writing rather than in everyday Gujarati text, allowing for more precise phonetic representation of the voiced postalveolar fricative.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0AF9 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Gujarati Letter Zha |
| Block | Gujarati |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ૹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ૹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAB 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0AF9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000AF9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0af9 |