U+0C17 "గ" Telugu Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
గ
U+0C17 "గ" Telugu Letter Ga is the third consonant in the Telugu abugida, representing the sound /ɡa/ as in "go." It belongs to the Telugu script block, which is used for writing the Telugu language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. The glyph is characterized by a distinctive curved shape with a horizontal top line and a rounded loop, typical of Telugu orthography. As an unvoiced velar plosive, it forms a fundamental part of the syllabic writing system where each consonant includes an inherent vowel sound, which can be modified with diacritics for different vowel combinations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C17 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Ga |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | గ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | గ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c17 |