U+0C97 "ಗ" Kannada Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಗ
U+0C97 "ಗ" Kannada Letter Ga is a consonant in the Kannada script, primarily used in the Dravidian language of Kannada, spoken predominantly in the Indian state of Karnataka. This character represents the voiced velar plosive sound /ɡa/, similar to the "g" in the English word "go," and it forms an essential part of the Kannada abugida, where its inherent vowel "a" can be modified or suppressed using diacritical marks. As a fundamental building block for writing words, it appears in numerous common vocabulary items and is encoded in the Unicode standard to ensure consistent digital representation and text processing across modern computing platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C97 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ga |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c97 |