U+095C "ड़" Devanagari Letter Dddha Unicode Character
U+095C "ड़" Devanagari Letter Dddha is a specific consonant used in the Devanagari script, primarily representing a retroflex flap sound in languages such as Hindi and Marathi. This character is distinct from the standard dental or retroflex stops, as it denotes a voiced retroflex flap, often transcribed as "ṛ" or "dd" in Romanization. Historically derived from the base letter ड (Dda), it is formed by adding a dot diacritic (nukta) beneath the character to indicate a phonetic variation, and it appears in words like "पड़ना" (paṛnā, meaning "to fall") to mark this subtle but important pronunciation difference. As part of the Unicode Standard, U+095C enables accurate digital representation and processing of South Asian languages that rely on the Devanagari script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+095C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Dddha |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ड" U+0921 Devanagari Letter Dda "़" U+093C Devanagari Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ड़ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ड़ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x095C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000095C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u095c |