U+0C9A "ಚ" Kannada Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಚ
U+0C9A "ಚ" Kannada Letter Ca is a fundamental glyph in the Kannada script, representing the consonant sound "cha" as in the English word "church." It belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts and is used primarily in the Kannada language, spoken in the Indian state of Karnataka. In the Unicode standard, it occupies a specific code point within the Kannada block, enabling consistent digital representation across devices and platforms, thereby supporting the preservation and exchange of written Kannada in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C9A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ca |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C9A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c9a |