Grantha Letters கிரந்த எழுத்துகள்

Grantha letters are used to write words/names that derived from other languages such as Sanskrit or Portuguese.

These are the most commonly used grantha letters in Tamil:

ஜ் ஸ் ஷ் ஹ் ஶ்ரீ

ஜ் ஸ் ஷ் ஹ் can be combined with Tamil vowels to make compound letters.

ஶ்ரீ is a combination of ஶ் +‎ ர் +‎ ஈ and is not modified by combining it with vowels. ஶ்ரீ means holy or sacred and often used in religious context. For example in the name of a temple:

ஶ்ரீ மகா கணபதி கோவில் (Shri Maha Ganapathy Temple)

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