U+0843 "ࡃ" Mandaic Letter Ad Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ࡃ
U+0843 "ࡃ" Mandaic Letter Ad is the fifteenth letter of the Mandaic alphabet, used for writing the Mandaic language, a liturgical language of the Mandaean religious community. It represents the consonant sound /d/ and is part of a script that is written from right to left, derived from a cursive form of Aramaic. The letter plays a role in transliterating sacred texts, including the Ginza Rba and the Book of John, and its name "Ad" is traditionally associated with the numerical value of four in the Mandaic numeric system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0843 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Mandaic Letter Ad |
| Block | Mandaic |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Right To Left |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ࡃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ࡃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA1 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0843 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000843 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0843 |