U+11016 "ð‘€–" Brahmi Letter Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11016 "ð‘€–" Brahmi Letter Gha is a glyph representing the aspirated voiced velar stop consonant "gha" from the ancient Brahmi script, one of the earliest writing systems used to write the Prakrit and Sanskrit languages in South Asia. This character belongs to the Brahmi block of the Unicode Standard, encoded for digital preservation and scholarly use, and is part of a set of Brahmi letters that were historically carved on Ashokan edicts and other inscriptions dating from around the 3rd century BCE. Its visual form typically features a distinctive curved shape with a horizontal top bar, reflecting the script's characteristic angular and flowing aesthetic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11016 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Brahmi Letter Gha |
| Block | Brahmi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑀖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑀖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDC16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011016 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udc16 |