U+0B9A "ச" Tamil Letter Ca Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0B9A "ச" Tamil Letter Ca is the sixteenth consonant in the Tamil abugida, representing the voiceless palatal plosive sound /t͡ʃ/. This letter is used extensively in written Tamil to form words and is the initial character in the Tamil word for the letter itself, "சன்னம்". It belongs to the Tamil script block in Unicode and is encoded at the hexadecimal value 0B9A, allowing for consistent digital representation across different platforms and devices for the Tamil language.

General Properties

Code Point U+0B9A
Version Added 1.1
Name Tamil Letter Ca
Block Tamil
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ச
HTML Hex Encoding ச
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xAE 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0B9A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000B9A
C/C++/Java Escape \u0b9a

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