U+0CAC "ಬ" Kannada Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಬ
U+0CAC "ಬ" Kannada Letter Ba is the thirty-ninth consonant in the Kannada script, representing the voiced bilabial plosive sound /b/ as in the English word "bat". It is commonly used across core Kannada vocabulary, appearing in words like "ಬನ" (vana, meaning forest) and "ಬರ" (bara, meaning drought or writing). Visually, it is characterized by a rounded top loop and a stem extending downward, typical of Kannada consonant glyphs. As part of the Kannada block in Unicode, this character supports the writing of the Kannada language, which is spoken by over 40 million people primarily in the Indian state of Karnataka.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CAC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ba |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cac |