U+0927 "ध" Devanagari Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ध
U+0927 "ध" Devanagari Letter Dha is the thirty-third consonant in the Devanagari script, representing the aspirated voiced dental plosive sound /dʱ/ as in the English word "adhere" when pronounced with a breathy release. This character is fundamental in writing languages such as Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit, where it combines with vowel signs and other diacritics to form syllables and words. In its isolated form, it appears as a distinct glyph with a horizontal top line typical of Devanagari, and it plays a key role in distinguishing aspirated from unaspirated dental sounds in these languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0927 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Dha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ध |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ध |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA4 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0927 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000927 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0927 |