Jha (Indic)

Jha is the ninth consonant of Indic abugidas. In modern Indic scripts, jha is derived from the early "Ashoka" Brahmi letter after having gone through the Gupta letter .

Jha
Example glyphs
Bengali–Assamese
Thai
Malayalam
Sinhala
Ashoka Brahmi
Devanagari
Cognates
Hebrewז
GreekΖ
LatinZ, Ʒ, ẞ
CyrillicЗ
Properties
Phonemic representation/d͡ʒʱ/ /cʰ/B
IAST transliterationjha Jha
ISCII code pointBB (187)

^B In Khmer
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