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Odia Alphabet

The letters and characters of Odia written in the Odia script, in order — every standard character with its name and codepoint, the additional and punctuation sets, and exactly how many fonts include them. About 45,092,160 people read or write it across 1 country.

4Fonts cover the standard set
62Standard characters
45,092,160People
1Countries

Standard characters

The minimal set of characters required for Odia — the language's alphabet, in its traditional order. Tap a character to copy it; each name opens the full character page.

Additional Characters

Used for foreign words, names and technical terms, and older forms of the language.

Punctuation characters

The marks used to separate sentences and to clarify meaning.

-U+002D‐U+2010‑U+2011–U+2013—U+2014,U+002C;U+003B:U+003A!U+0021?U+003F.U+002E…U+2026।U+0964'U+0027‘U+2018’U+2019"U+0022“U+201C”U+201D(U+0028)U+0029[U+005B]U+005D§U+00A7@U+0040*U+002A/U+002F&U+0026#U+0023†U+2020‡U+2021′U+2032″U+2033

Where Odia is read

Countries shaded by the share of their population that reads or writes Odia in the Odia script. The map is zoomed to the region where at least 1% of a country's people read it; neighbouring countries are shown unshaded for context.

50% or more of the country 10–50% 1–10% under 1% not listed for this language

Estimated readers — share of each country's population (CLDR).

CountryEstimated readersShare of population
India 45,092,160 3.2%

Odia — facts

Font coverage 4 of 137,179 fonts include every one of the 62 standard characters; 2 include the standard and additional sets together. Counts are exact for the snapshot of 21 October 2026.
Script Oriya
Unicode blocks Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Devanagari, Oriya, General Punctuation
People About 45,092,160 people read or write Odia in the Odia script — mostly in India.

Data: Unicode CLDR exemplar characters (CLDR 48.2.0) and CLDR territory population data. Font counts: snapshot of 21 October 2026.