U+0D1A "ച" Malayalam Letter Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ച
U+0D1A "ച" Malayalam Letter Ca is the character representing the unaspirated voiceless palatal stop consonant /c/ in the Malayalam script, corresponding to the sound of the English "ch" in words like "church." It is one of the fundamental consonants in the Malayalam alphabet, which is used primarily for writing the Malayalam language of Kerala, India. This character appears as the first letter of the second varga (the palatal series) in the traditional Malayalam syllabary and is essential for forming a wide range of words and syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D1A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Ca |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ച |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ച |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d1a |