U+1191E "𑤞" Dives Akuru Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑤞
U+1191E "𑤞" Dives Akuru Letter Dha is a glyph from the Dives Akuru script, a historical Brahmic writing system historically used in the Maldives and on the Lakshadweep islands, primarily for writing the Dhivehi language. This specific letter represents the voiced aspirated dental consonant sound "dha," corresponding to the 19th consonant of the Dives Akuru alphabet, which was largely replaced by the Thaana script in the 18th century. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard’s Dives Akuru block, which was added in version 13.0 in 2020 to preserve and support the digital representation of this endangered and culturally significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1191E |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Dives Akuru Letter Dha |
| Block | Dives Akuru |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑤞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑤞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA4 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDD1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001191E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\udd1e |