U+0D27 "ധ" Malayalam Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ധ
U+0D27 "ധ" Malayalam Letter Dha is a distinct consonant in the Malayalam script, representing the voiced aspirated dental plosive sound /d̪ʱ/, similar to the "dh" in the English word "adhere" but with a dental articulation. It belongs to the class of aspirated letters in the language, often used in words of Dravidian or Sanskrit origin, such as "ധനം" (dhanam, meaning wealth). In character encoding, this letter is part of the Malayalam block in Unicode, specifically positioned after U+0D26 "ദ" (Malayalam Letter Da) and before U+0D28 "ന" (Malayalam Letter Na), and it follows the standard linguistic order of the Malayalam alphabet where aspirated consonants appear in their traditional sequence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0D27 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Malayalam Letter Dha |
| Block | Malayalam |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ധ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ധ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB4 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0D27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000D27 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0d27 |