U+1101F "𑀟" Brahmi Letter Dda Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑀟

U+1101F "𑀟" Brahmi Letter Dda is a glyph representing a specific consonant in the ancient Brahmi script, which was used across the Indian subcontinent from roughly the 3rd century BCE to the 5th century CE and is the ancestral writing system for many modern South Asian scripts. This particular character encodes the retroflex 'ḍ' sound, a common phoneme in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, and it plays a crucial role in the historical and paleographic study of early inscriptions, such as those of Emperor Ashoka. Being part of the Brahmi block in Unicode, it enables digital preservation and accurate rendering of ancient texts, aiding researchers and linguists in understanding the development of writing in South Asia.

General Properties

Code Point U+1101F
Version Added 6.0
Name Brahmi Letter Dda
Block Brahmi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑀟
HTML Hex Encoding 𑀟
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x80 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD804 0xDC1F
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001101F
C/C++/Java Escape \ud804\udc1f

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara
Script Brahmi
Script Extensions Brahmi
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter