Takri Letter Gha

𑚍 is the Takri consonant letter gha.

Takri is an abugida: each consonant normally carries a built-in vowel, so the consonant gives only part of a syllable. A vowel sign changes that vowel; a virama cancels it. The surrounding marks and letters complete the syllable.

On its own, 𑚍 identifies a consonant, not a particular word. Gha is the conventional Latin spelling of the letter’s name; its exact spoken sound depends on the language written in Takri.

Where did Takri come from?

Takri grew out of Sharada through Devāśeṣa.

Sharada, used for Sanskrit, Kashmiri and other northern South Asian languages, was Kashmir’s main script for literature and inscriptions from the 8th century into the 20th century. Devāśeṣa, an intermediate script, emerged around the 13th–14th centuries and served religious and official writing; popular Takri served commerce and informal writing. Takri became distinct in the 16th century.

From the 17th century to the middle of the 20th century, regional forms served as official scripts in several princely states, or small kingdoms, in northern and northwestern India. Takri appears in accounts, letters, decrees, inscriptions, postage stamps and local-language writing. Devanagari gradually replaced it in routine use. Takri is also related to Gurmukhi and Landa; Dogra is a distinct, closely related script used for Dogri.

Why does Takri look different across sources?

Regional Takri styles can change the letter’s shape.

Takri has no universal standard form: the Unicode chart’s representative letters mainly show the Chamba style, while other regional forms can look quite different. Those differences are handled at the font level, so the drawn shape is font-dependent.

A box or blank can mean the chosen font or its fallback lacks Takri coverage; the underlying text can still contain 𑚍.