U+0CDE "ೞ" Kannada Letter Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ೞ
U+0CDE "ೞ" Kannada Letter Fa is a rare and archaic consonant in the Kannada script, representing a voiced retroflex fricative sound that has largely fallen out of use in the modern language, where it is typically replaced by the letter ಫ (pha). This character is primarily encountered in old literary works and etymological studies of Kannada, as it historically transcribed sounds from sources like the Maharashtri Prakrit or loanwords. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures its preservation for scholarly and archival purposes, allowing it to be digitized and displayed correctly in manuscripts and texts that require this specific historical orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0CDE |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Kannada Letter Fa |
| Block | Kannada |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Alias | KANNADA LETTER LLLA (correction) |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ೞ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ೞ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB3 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0CDE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000CDE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0cde |