U+0BAA "ப" Tamil Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ப
U+0BAA "ப" Tamil Letter Pa is a consonant in the Tamil abugida, representing the sound "pa" in its inherent vowel form, which is a voiceless bilabial plosive. It belongs to the "U+0B80 U+0BFF Tamil" block and is categorized as a non-Braille, left-to-right script character. In the Tamil syllabary, "ப" is the 21st letter and can be modified with various vowel signs to produce different syllables, such as "ப்" (without vowel) or "பா" (with long vowel). This letter is commonly used in Tamil words and is integral to the phonetic and written structure of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BAA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Pa |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ப |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ப |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0baa |