U+1139E "" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1139E "" Tulu-Tigalari Letter Dda is a specific character from the Tulu-Tigalari script, an alphasyllabary historically used to write the Tulu language, primarily in the coastal region of Karnataka and Kerala, India. This letter represents the voiced retroflex plosive consonant sound "ḍa" and is part of a larger set of characters encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Tulu-Tigalari block, which was added to facilitate digital representation and preservation of the script. The character's inclusion enables modern documentation, linguistic research, and text processing for a writing system that was traditionally used in manuscripts and inscriptions, reflecting a cultural and historical link to the region's literary heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1139E |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Tulu-Tigalari Letter Dda |
| Block | Tulu-Tigalari |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑎞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑎞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x8E 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD804 0xDF9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001139E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud804\udf9e |