U+0A22 "ਢ" Gurmukhi Letter Ddha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ਢ
U+0A22 "ਢ" Gurmukhi Letter Ddha is the twenty-second letter of the Gurmukhi script, representing the voiced retroflex plosive sound /ɖʱ/ when used with an inherent vowel, or with its aspirated breathy quality when pronounced. It is primarily used in the Punjabi language, where it appears in both native words and loanwords, and it corresponds to the character "ਢ" in written text. As part of the Gurmukhi alphabet, it follows the phonetic grouping of consonants and is typically employed in the Gurmukhi script's standard orthography for writing Punjabi.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0A22 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Gurmukhi Letter Ddha |
| Block | Gurmukhi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ਢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ਢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xA8 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0A22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000A22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0a22 |