U+0B5C "ଡ଼" Oriya Letter Rra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ଡ଼
U+0B5C "ଡ଼" Oriya Letter Rra is a distinct consonant used in the Odia script, primarily to represent a retroflex flap sound that occurs in certain loanwords and specific native vernacular contexts. It is historically derived from the combination of the regular letter "Ra" with a diacritic mark, and its usage is less common than the standard retroflex consonant, often appearing in words borrowed from Sanskrit, Persian, or Arabic or in onomatopoeic expressions. Visually, the character resembles the standard Oriya "Ra" but includes an extra horizontal stroke or tail that differentiates its pronunciation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B5C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Rra |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ଡ" U+0B21 Oriya Letter Dda "଼" U+0B3C Oriya Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଡ଼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଡ଼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B5C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B5C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b5c |