U+0BB9 "ஹ" Tamil Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ஹ
U+0BB9 "ஹ" Tamil Letter Ha is a consonant in the Tamil abugida that represents the voiceless glottal fricative sound /h/. This character is primarily used to transcribe foreign loanwords, particularly from Sanskrit, English, and other languages, as the sound /h/ was not native to the original Tamil phonological system. In modern Tamil, it appears in words such as "ஹரி" (Hari) and "ஹோட்டல்" (hotel), and its introduction via Unicode ensures accurate representation and digital processing of this borrowed character in contemporary text and computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0BB9 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Tamil Letter Ha |
| Block | Tamil |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ஹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ஹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAE 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0BB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000BB9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0bb9 |