U+0B27 "ଧ" Oriya Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0B27 "ଧ" Oriya Letter Dha is a consonant in the Odia script, representing the voiced aspirated dental plosive sound /d̪ʰɔ/, similar to the "dh" sound in the English word "dove" but with a breathy release. It is used in the Odia language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Odisha, and forms part of the script's standard consonant inventory, where it occupies the 27th position in the Unicode block for Odia characters. The character is visually distinct, featuring a curved shape with a top horizontal line, and it combines with vowel signs or other diacritics to create full syllables in written Odia texts, playing a key role in representing lexical and grammatical structures in the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B27 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Dha |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAC 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b27 |