U+0CAB "ಫ" Kannada Letter Pha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಫ
U+0CAB "ಫ" Kannada Letter Pha is a character in the Kannada script, used primarily to write the Kannada language of southern India, where it represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop sound "pha" as in the English word "top hat". It is part of the Kannada block in the Unicode Standard, positioned after the letter for "pa" and before the letter for "ba". Visually, this character features a distinctive curved shape with a small loop or dot above the main body, a design element common to many Kannada aspirated consonants.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CAB |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Pha |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cab |