U+0B1A "ଚ" Oriya Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B1A "ଚ" Oriya Letter Ca is a character in the Oriya script used to write the Odia language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It represents the consonant sound /tʃə/ (like the "ch" in "charm"), serving as the equivalent of the 19th consonant in the standard Odia alphabet. This character belongs to the Oriya block in Unicode, where it is categorized as a letter and is encoded specifically for digital text representation. As part of the Brahmic family of scripts, it is written with a distinct curved shape and is used in combination with vowel signs to form syllables, playing a fundamental role in reading, writing, and processing Odia text in computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B1A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Ca |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b1a |