U+0BA4 "த" Tamil Letter Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
த
U+0BA4 "த" Tamil Letter Ta is a consonant representing the voiceless dental plosive sound in the Tamil script, pronounced similar to the "th" in the English word "Thai" without aspiration. It is the 24th character in the Tamil alphabet, belonging to the Vallinam (hard consonant) category, and is commonly used as an initial or medial letter in numerous Tamil words, such as "தமிழ்" (Tamil) itself. In Unicode, it falls within the Tamil block (U+0B80 to U+0BFF) and is encoded as a single character that can combine with vowel signs and other diacritical marks to form complex syllables in the abugida writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BA4 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ta |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | த |
| HTML Hex Encoding | த |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BA4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BA4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ba4 |