U+0CA1 "ಡ" Kannada Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಡ
U+0CA1 "ಡ" Kannada Letter Dda is a character used in the Kannada script, which is primarily employed to write the Kannada language of Karnataka, India. This specific letter represents a voiced retroflex stop consonant, pronounced as a hard 'd' sound with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. It is a fundamental part of the Kannada alphabet, often appearing as a consonant within inscriptions, literature, and modern text, and is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure consistent digital representation across different platforms and devices.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CA1 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Dda |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಡ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಡ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CA1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CA1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ca1 |