U+0BB9 "ஹ" Tamil Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+0BB9 "ஹ" Tamil Letter Ha is a consonant in the Tamil abugida that represents the voiceless glottal fricative sound /h/. This character is primarily used to transcribe foreign loanwords, particularly from Sanskrit, English, and other languages, as the sound /h/ was not native to the original Tamil phonological system. In modern Tamil, it appears in words such as "ஹரி" (Hari) and "ஹோட்டல்" (hotel), and its introduction via Unicode ensures accurate representation and digital processing of this borrowed character in contemporary text and computing systems.
General Properties
Code Point
U+0BB9
Name
Tamil Letter Ha
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ஹ
HTML Hex Encoding
ஹ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE0 0xAE 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding
0x0BB9
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00000BB9
C/C++/Java Escape
\u0bb9
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Tamil