U+0CAC "ಬ" Kannada Letter Ba Unicode Character

U+0CAC "ಬ" Kannada Letter Ba is the thirty-ninth consonant in the Kannada script, representing the voiced bilabial plosive sound /b/ as in the English word "bat". It is commonly used across core Kannada vocabulary, appearing in words like "ಬನ" (vana, meaning forest) and "ಬರ" (bara, meaning drought or writing). Visually, it is characterized by a rounded top loop and a stem extending downward, typical of Kannada consonant glyphs. As part of the Kannada block in Unicode, this character supports the writing of the Kannada language, which is spoken by over 40 million people primarily in the Indian state of Karnataka.