U+0C58 "ౘ" Telugu Letter Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ౘ
U+0C58 "ౘ" Telugu Letter Tsa is a consonant used in the Telugu script to represent the sound /t͡sa/, a voiceless postalveolar affricate that is commonly heard in words of Dravidian origin. This character was added to the Unicode standard as part of the Telugu block to support accurate text representation for the Telugu language, particularly for distinguishing this unique phoneme from other similar sounds. Its inclusion ensures that digital text can properly render and process this specific letter, which is essential for written Telugu in both modern and literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C58 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Tsa |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ౘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ౘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB1 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C58 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C58 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c58 |