How do i get the decimal value of a unicode character in C#?

Question

How do i get the numeric value of a unicode character in C#?

For example if tamil character அ (U+0B85) given, output should be 2949 (i.e. <

Answer 1

char c = 'அ';
short code = (short)c;
ushort code2 = (ushort)c;