U+0CA4 "ತ" Kannada Letter Ta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0CA4 "ತ" Kannada Letter Ta is a consonant character from the Kannada script used to write the Kannada language of southern India, representing the unaspirated voiceless dental plosive sound /t̪a/. Structurally, it is formed as a syllabic unit where the inherent vowel "a" is understood unless modified by a diacritic, and it is composed of a curved top and a vertical stem typical of Kannada script's rounded aesthetic. This character belongs to the Kannada block in Unicode, encoded under the category of "Lo" (Other Letter), and it appears as the first character in the third row of the Kannada alphasyllabary, often used as a building block for compound consonants and word formation in literary and everyday writing, from ancient inscriptions to modern digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+0CA4
Version Added 1.1
Name Kannada Letter Ta
Block Kannada
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ತ
HTML Hex Encoding ತ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB2 0xA4
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0CA4
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000CA4
C/C++/Java Escape \u0ca4

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Kannada
Script Extensions Kannada
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter