U+11421 "𑐡" Newa Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑐡
U+11421 "𑐡" Newa Letter Da is a member of the Newa script, also known as Newar or Prachalit, which is used primarily to write the Nepal Bhasa language by the Newar community in Nepal. This specific character represents the voiced dental stop consonant "da" and is part of the larger block of Newa syllables and vowels encoded in Unicode version 9.0, released in 2016. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard helps preserve and digitize the rich linguistic heritage of the Newar culture, enabling modern communication, text processing, and historical documentation in a script that has been used for centuries in religious, administrative, and literary contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11421 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Newa Letter Da |
| Block | Newa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑐡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑐡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x90 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDC21 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011421 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udc21 |