U+0CA2 "ಢ" Kannada Letter Ddha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ಢ
U+0CA2 "ಢ" Kannada Letter Ddha is a consonant in the Kannada script, representing the aspirated retroflex stop sound /ɖʱ/, which is a voiced, aspirated sound produced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. It is commonly used in the written form of the Kannada language, primarily spoken in the Indian state of Karnataka, and appears in words of Dravidian origin as well as in loanwords that require the aspirated pronunciation. As part of the Kannada block in Unicode, this character enables digital representation and processing of text in modern computing systems, preserving the script's phonetic and orthographic traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CA2 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Ddha |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ಢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ಢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CA2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CA2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ca2 |