U+097E "ॾ" Devanagari Letter Ddda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ॾ
U+097E "ॾ" Devanagari Letter Ddda is a distinctive consonant used primarily in the Sindhi language and occasionally in other Indic scripts to represent a retroflex implosive sound, specifically a voiced retroflex implosive stop. It is visually similar to the standard Devanagari character "ड" (da) but is modified with a small horizontal bar or tick attached to the left side of the vertical stem, which indicates its implosive articulation. This character is part of the Devanagari Extended block in Unicode, which was introduced to support additional phonetic needs of languages like Sindhi, Marwari, and others that require more nuanced consonant representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+097E |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Devanagari Letter Ddda |
| Block | Devanagari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ॾ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ॾ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA5 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x097E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000097E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u097e |