U+1141C "𑐜" Newa Letter Dda Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑐜

U+1141C "𑐜" Newa Letter Dda is a character used in the Newa script, which is the traditional writing system for the Nepal Bhasa language, primarily spoken in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. This specific letter represents a voiced retroflex stop consonant, roughly corresponding to the sound "ḍa" in English transliteration, and it plays a role in writing a range of texts, from everyday communication to historical manuscripts and modern digital content. The Newa script is encoded in Unicode’s Newa block, which was added in version 7.0 to support the preservation and use of this culturally significant script in computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1141C
Version Added 9.0
Name Newa Letter Dda
Block Newa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑐜
HTML Hex Encoding 𑐜
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0x90 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD805 0xDC1C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001141C
C/C++/Java Escape \ud805\udc1c

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 Alphabetic
Script Newa
Script Extensions Newa
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