U+0B9C "ஜ" Tamil Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ஜ
U+0B9C "ஜ" Tamil Letter Ja is a character in the Tamil script used primarily to represent the sound "ja," which occurs in loanwords, particularly from Sanskrit, English, and other languages, as the inherent Tamil phonological system does not natively include this voiced palatal affricate sound. Unlike many foundational Tamil letters, ஜ is classified as a Grantha character, adopted into the modern Tamil alphabet to accurately transcribe foreign terms and is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Tamil block, allowing for consistent digital representation across platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B9C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ja |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B9C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B9C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b9c |