U+0D1C "ജ" Malayalam Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ജ
U+0D1C "ജ" Malayalam Letter Ja is a consonant in the Malayalam script, representing the voiced palatal affricate sound /d͡ʒ/, which is a common phoneme in Malayalam and other Dravidian languages. It is the twenty-eighth letter of the Malayalam alphabet and corresponds to the Devanagari letter ज in its phonetic value. Visually, it is a distinct character with a rounded top and a curved tail, often used in words like "ജലം" (jalam, meaning water) and "ജനം" (janam, meaning people). The letter is encoded in the Unicode standard to enable consistent digital representation and processing of Malayalam text across different platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D1C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Ja |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ജ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ജ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D1C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D1C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d1c |