U+0C1A "చ" Telugu Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
చ
U+0C1A "చ" Telugu Letter Ca is the first consonant in the Telugu script, representing the unaspirated voiceless palatal plosive sound similar to the "ch" in the English word "catch" but without a strong puff of air. It corresponds to the syllable "ca" and is a fundamental building block in writing the Telugu language, which is primarily spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. This character serves as a base glyph for forming many other syllables through the addition of vowel signs and diacritics, and it appears in everyday words, literary works, and digital text across millions of speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C1A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Ca |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | చ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | చ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB0 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c1a |