U+095A "ग़" Devanagari Letter Ghha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+095A "ग़" Devanagari Letter Ghha is a specialized consonant used in the Devanagari script to represent a voiced velar fricative sound, which is not typically found in standard Hindi but appears in transliterations of Arabic, Persian, and other foreign words. It is visually formed by placing a dot (nukta) beneath the standard Devanagari letter "ग" (ga), indicating a modified pronunciation. This character is essential for accurately writing words like "ग़रीब" (gharib, meaning poor) or "बाग़" (bagh, meaning garden) in languages such as Urdu, Kashmiri, or occasionally in scholarly transliterations, helping to preserve phonetic distinctions that the unadorned "ग" cannot convey.
General Properties
Code Point
U+095A
Name
Devanagari Letter Ghha
Decomposition Mapping
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ग़
HTML Hex Encoding
ग़
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xA5 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0x095A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000095A
C/C++/Java Escape
\u095a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
NFKC Simple Casefold
Script Extensions
Devanagari