“ਜ” U+0A1C: Gurmukhi Letter Ja

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The Gurmukhi Letter Ja (ਜ) is a fundamental consonant in the Gurmukhi script, primarily representing the voiced palatal affricate sound in the Punjabi language. It was introduced in Unicode 1.1 and belongs to the ‘Other Letter’ category. It functions as a base character for variants like ਜ਼ (U+0A5B), which denotes the ‘za’ sound in loanwords.

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