U+0B26 "ଦ" Oriya Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B26 "ଦ" Oriya Letter Da is a consonant in the Odia (formerly Oriya) script, representing the voiced dental plosive sound /d̪/ similar to the 'd' in the English word "dog." This script is primarily used for writing the Odia language, which is spoken by over 40 million people in the Indian state of Odisha and neighboring regions. The character is a basic building block of the Odia abugida, where it appears in its independent form and can be modified with diacritical marks to represent different vowel sounds.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B26 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Da |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B26 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b26 |