U+0B39 "ହ" Oriya Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B39 "ହ" Oriya Letter Ha is the thirty-ninth character in the Oriya script, representing the voiced glottal fricative consonant sound "ha" as used in languages like Odia. It is part of the Oriya (Odia) Unicode block and is employed in writing native Odia words, as well as in transliterating Sanskrit and other loanwords. Visually, the character features a distinctive curved shape with a horizontal line at the top, similar to many other Oriya consonants, and it often combines with vowel diacritics to form complex syllabic clusters. As a fundamental letter in the Oriya alphabet, it plays a key role in the phonetic and orthographic system of the language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Odisha.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B39 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Ha |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ହ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ହ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B39 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B39 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b39 |