U+11317 "𑌗" Grantha Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌗
U+11317 "𑌗" Grantha Letter Ga is a glyph from the Grantha script, an ancient abugida historically used in South India and Sri Lanka primarily to write Sanskrit and classical Manipravalam texts. This character represents the consonant sound "ga," akin to the English "g" as in "go," and is a fundamental part of the Grantha syllabary. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text can faithfully preserve and transmit the liturgical, scholarly, and epigraphic heritage of the Grantha script, which is essential for studying Hindu and Jain religious manuscripts, temple inscriptions, and works of South Indian literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11317 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Ga |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF17 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011317 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf17 |