U+0B95 "க" Tamil Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
க
U+0B95 "க" Tamil Letter Ka is the first consonant of the Tamil abugida, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/. It is a fundamental building block of the Tamil script, used in writing the Tamil language spoken predominantly in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Sri Lanka, and by Tamil diaspora communities worldwide. This character can combine with various vowel signs to produce different syllabic forms, such as கா (kaa) or கி (ki), and is integral to the rich literary and cultural heritage of Tamil, one of the oldest classical languages in the world.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B95 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ka |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | க |
| HTML Hex Encoding | க |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B95 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B95 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b95 |