U+0CAF "ಯ" Kannada Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಯ
U+0CAF "ಯ" Kannada Letter Ya is a consonant used in the Kannada script, representing the sound "ya" as in the English word "yacht." It is the thirty-eighth letter of the Kannada alphabet and is commonly found in words like "ಯೋಗ" (yoga) and "ಯುವ" (young person). In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Kannada block, which encodes characters for writing the Kannada language spoken primarily in the Indian state of Karnataka. The glyph of "ಯ" is distinctive, with a curved top stroke and a descending vertical line, and it serves as a base character that can combine with vowel signs to form complex syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CAF |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ya |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0caf |