U+0CAA "ಪ" Kannada Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಪ
U+0CAA "ಪ" Kannada Letter Pa is the thirty sixth consonant in the Kannada script, representing the unaspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound /pa/. It is used in the Kannada language, which is primarily spoken in the state of Karnataka, India, and belongs to the Brahmic family of scripts. This character functions as a basic building block in Kannada orthography, combining with vowel signs and other diacritics to form complex syllables, and it holds cultural significance as an essential element for writing words in Kannada literature, daily communication, and digital text encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CAA |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Pa |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CAA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CAA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0caa |