U+0CDD "ೝ" Kannada Letter Nakaara Pollu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ೝ
U+0CDD "ೝ" Kannada Letter Nakaara Pollu is a specific glyph used in the Kannada script, primarily representing a rare or archaic form of the consonant "na" that carries a distinct phonetic value or historical usage. This character is part of the Kannada block within the Unicode standard, and its inclusion helps preserve the linguistic diversity of the Kannada language, often appearing in scholarly texts or transcriptions of ancient inscriptions. Its name "Nakaara Pollu" refers to the "na" sound with a particular diacritic or contextual modification, making it an important element for accurate representation of classical or dialectal Kannada in digital form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CDD |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Nakaara Pollu |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ೝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ೝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB3 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cdd |