U+099D "ঝ" Bengali Letter Jha Unicode Character

U+099D "ঝ" Bengali Letter Jha is the twenty-first character in the Bengali abugida, representing the voiced palato-alveolar affricate sound /dʒʱ/ or, in some contexts, a breathy-voiced aspirated /dʒ/. It belongs to the Bengali script block in Unicode and is used primarily in the Bengali and Assamese languages to write words like ঝড় (storm) and is often a component of compound consonants, such as in ঝঞ্ঝা (tempest). This character is derived from the Brahmi script lineage and is written with a distinctive curved top stroke and a hooked descending line.