U+1012 "ဒ" Myanmar Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1012 "ဒ" Myanmar Letter Da is a fundamental consonant in the Myanmar script, representing the sound /d/ (a voiced dental plosive) in the standard Burmese and Mon languages. It forms the twenty-first character of the Myanmar alphabet and is classified as a vocalic consonant, meaning it inherently carries the vowel /a/ unless modified by a diacritic. Historically, it derives from the Brahmi script through the Mon script tradition, and in modern usage, it appears in the initial or medial positions of syllables, often combining with various vowel signs and tone markers to create distinct phonetic representations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1012 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Da |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ဒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ဒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1012 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001012 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1012 |