U+0B15 "କ" Oriya Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B15 "କ" Oriya Letter Ka is a fundamental consonant in the Odia script, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/. It belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and is used primarily in the Odia language, spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. This character serves as the base form to which vowel diacritics can be attached, forming a variety of syllables essential to Odia writing. In the Unicode standard, it is encoded in the Oriya block at position U+0B15, ensuring consistent digital representation across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B15 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Ka |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | କ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | କ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b15 |