U+1131D "𑌝" Grantha Letter Jha Unicode Character

U+1131D "𑌝" Grantha Letter Jha is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient South Indian abugida historically used to write Sanskrit, Tamil, and Manipravalam in scholarly and religious contexts. This particular grapheme represents the aspirated voiced palatal stop consonant /dʒʱ/, analogous to the sound of "jh" in English "mahjong," and is a key component in transliterating Sanskrit texts and mantras. While the Grantha script has largely been supplanted by modern scripts like Tamil and Malayalam for everyday use, it remains significant for the preservation of Vedic literature, classical scholarship, and traditional palm-leaf manuscripts. The letter appears in the Unicode Standard within the Grantha block, supporting digital encoding for academic research, digital humanities projects, and authentic rendering of historical documents in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1131D
Version Added	7.0
Name	Grantha Letter Jha
Block	Grantha
General Category	Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	𑌝
HTML Hex Encoding	𑌝
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0x9D
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD804 0xDF1D
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001131D
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud804\udf1d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Aksara
Script	Grantha
Script Extensions	Grantha
Indic Syllabic Category	Consonant
ID Start	Yes
XID Start	Yes
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Alphabetic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break	OLetter