U+0C59 "ౙ" Telugu Letter Dza Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ౙ
U+0C59 "ౙ" Telugu Letter Dza is a specific glyph within the Telugu script representing the sound /d͡za/, a voiced alveolar affricate used primarily to transcribe foreign and loanwords, particularly from languages like Urdu, Arabic, and English. It is a distinct addition to the standard Telugu consonant inventory, later encoded in Unicode to support accurate transliteration of sounds not native to literary Telugu. Although relatively rare in everyday Telugu writing, the character appears in scholarly works, dictionaries, and historical texts to preserve phonetic precision.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0C59 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Telugu Letter Dza |
| Block | Telugu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ౙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ౙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB1 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0C59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000C59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0c59 |