U+0F4C "ཌ" Tibetan Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ཌ
U+0F4C "ཌ" Tibetan Letter Dda is a symbol used in the Tibetan script to represent the retroflex voiced plosive consonant sound, roughly equivalent to the retroflex "d" in some Indic languages. This character is part of the Tibetan alphabet's consonant set, specifically belonging to the fourth row of consonants that denote retroflex sounds, and it appears in Tibetan texts for transliterating Sanskrit terms or in native Tibetan words where retroflex articulation occurs. Its visual form, characterized by a distinct hooked shape, aligns with the unique calligraphic style of Tibetan writing, and it is encoded in Unicode to facilitate digital representation of Tibetan language content across various platforms and software.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0F4C |
| Version Added | 2.0 |
| Name | Tibetan Letter Dda |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Tibetan Letter Reversed Da |
| Block | Tibetan |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ཌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ཌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBD 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0F4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000F4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0f4c |