U+0B21 "ଡ" Oriya Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B21 "ଡ" Oriya Letter Dda is a symbol used in the Odia script to represent the retroflex stop consonant sound similar to the English "d" but produced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. This character is part of the Oriya Unicode block and is employed in writing the Odia language, which is primarily spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. It is typically used in combination with vowel signs or diacritics to form syllables, and its visual shape features a distinctive curved stroke with a small loop on the upper left, reflecting the traditional calligraphic style of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B21 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Dda |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B21 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b21 |