U+09DC "ড়" Bengali Letter Rra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ড়
U+09DC "ড়" Bengali Letter Rra is a distinct letter in the Bengali script used to represent a retroflex flap sound, specifically the voiced retroflex flap [ɽ], which is a common phoneme in many South Asian languages like Bengali and Assamese. It is visually similar to the letter "ড" (Da) but with a dot underneath to indicate its different pronunciation, and it is considered a separate glyph from its base character in the Unicode standard.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+09DC |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Bengali Letter Rra |
| Block | Bengali |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ড" U+09A1 Bengali Letter Dda "়" U+09BC Bengali Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ড় |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ড় |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA7 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x09DC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000009DC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u09dc |