U+0AAB "ફ" Gujarati Letter Pha Unicode Character

U+0AAB "ફ" Gujarati Letter Pha is the thirty eighth consonant of the Gujarati script, representing the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound, typically pronounced like the "ph" in the English word "pharmacy" but without the English fricative quality. It is used in writing the Gujarati language, most commonly appearing in words of native Indic origin as well as in loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, and English. The character is part of the Gujarati Unicode block, which encodes the script used primarily in the Indian state of Gujarat, and it corresponds to the Devanagari letter फ, sharing a similar phonetic function and historical derivation from the Brahmi script.