U+0CAA "ಪ" Kannada Letter Pa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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