U+1132D "ð‘Œ" Grantha Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð‘Œ
U+1132D "ð‘Œ" Grantha Letter Bha is a character from the Grantha script, an ancient Brahmic writing system historically used in Southern India and Sri Lanka for writing Sanskrit, Tamil, and Manipravalam. This specific letter represents the aspirated voiced bilabial stop consonant sound "bha," articulated similarly to the English "bh" as in "abhor." Within the Grantha script, it belongs to a class of characters that were instrumental in preserving and transmitting classical Sanskrit texts, particularly in Tamil-speaking regions. The letter is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Grantha block, ensuring its digital representation for scholarly, linguistic, and archival purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1132D |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Grantha Letter Bha |
| Block | Grantha |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑌭 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑌭 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8C 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001132D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf2d |