U+0B5D "ଢ଼" Oriya Letter Rha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ଢ଼
U+0B5D "ଢ଼" Oriya Letter Rha is a specific consonant used in the Odia script to represent a retroflex or breathy "rha" sound distinct from the standard letter "Ra." This character is relatively rare and is primarily found in transliterations of foreign words, Sanskrit-derived terms, or in certain onomatopoeic and dialectal contexts within the Odia language. It forms an integral part of the script's extended consonant inventory, helping to preserve phonetic distinctions that are important for accurate linguistic expression and historical text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0B5D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Oriya Letter Rha |
| Block | Oriya |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ଢ" U+0B22 Oriya Letter Ddha "଼" U+0B3C Oriya Sign Nukta |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ଢ଼ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ଢ଼ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xAD 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0B5D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000B5D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0b5d |