U+11A16 "𑨖" Zanabazar Square Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑨖
U+11A16 "𑨖" Zanabazar Square Letter Dda is a symbol from the Zanabazar Square script, an abugida historically used in Tibetan Buddhist contexts for writing the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit languages. This specific character represents the voiced retroflex plosive consonant sound "dda" and is part of a script invented in the 17th century by the Mongolian monk and scholar Zanabazar. The square, geometric forms of these letters were designed to create a visually balanced and sacred aesthetic for religious texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11A16 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Zanabazar Square Letter Dda |
| Block | Zanabazar Square |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑨖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑨖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDE16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011A16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\ude16 |