U+0B95 "க" Tamil Letter Ka Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Tamil
Script Extensions Tamil
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter