U+0B9A "ச" Tamil Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ச
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 |