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 |