U+0D22 "ഢ" Malayalam Letter Ddha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ഢ
U+0D22 "ഢ" Malayalam Letter Ddha is a consonant used in the Malayalam script, representing the voiced retroflex aspirated plosive sound, similar to the "d" sound in English but produced with the tongue curled back against the palate and with a distinct breathy release. It is part of the Brahmic family of scripts and is used primarily in the Malayalam language, which is spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territory of Lakshadweep. This letter is classified under the Malayalam block in the Unicode standard and occupies a specific position in the script's alphabetic order, following the letter U+0D21 "ഡ" (Dda) and preceding U+0D23 "ണ" (Nna).
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D22 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Ddha |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ഢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ഢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D22 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D22 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d22 |