Gha (Indic)

Gha is the fourth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, gha is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter , which is probably derived from the Aramaic ("H/X") after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Gha
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Tibetan
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewח
GreekΗ, Ͱ
LatinH
CyrillicИ
Properties
Phonemic representation/gʱ/ /kʰ/B
IAST transliterationgha Gha
ISCII code pointB6 (182)

^B in Khmer
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