U+0D17 "ഗ" Malayalam Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഗ
U+0D17 "ഗ" Malayalam Letter Ga is the thirty sixth character in the Malayalam abugida and represents the voiced velar plosive consonant sound like the 'g' in "go". It is used in the Malayalam script, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, to form a wide range of words and is derived from the ancient Brahmi script through the Grantha script. This character can combine with various vowel signs to produce syllables such as ഗാ (gaa) and ഗി (gi) and is an essential component of the language's rich literary and written tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D17 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Ga |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ഗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ഗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D17 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d17 |