U+11318 "𑌘" Grantha Letter Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑌘
U+11318 "𑌘" Grantha Letter Gha is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in South India and Sri Lanka primarily to write Sanskrit texts as well as the Tamil language. It represents the voiced aspirated velar stop consonant "gha," which is pronounced like the "gh" in the English word "ghost" but with a breathy release, and it corresponds to the fourth consonant of the Grantha alphabet's velar series. This character is part of a larger Unicode block that encodes Grantha letters for digital text processing, enabling the preservation and use of classical manuscripts, religious works, and scholarly documents in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11318 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Gha |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF18 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011318 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf18 |