U+0D1D "ഝ" Malayalam Letter Jha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഝ
U+0D1D "ഝ" Malayalam Letter Jha is the sixteenth consonant in the Malayalam script and represents the aspirated voiced palatal stop sound, equivalent to the "jha" sound found in other Brahmi-derived writing systems. As part of the Malayalam Unicode block, this character is used in writing the Malayalam language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Kerala, and it appears in both native vocabulary and loanwords. The glyph resembles a curved, looped form typical of Malayalam script, and it is encoded for digital text to preserve the linguistic heritage of the Dravidian language family.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D1D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Jha |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ഝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ഝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D1D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D1D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d1d |