U+11F1E "𑼞" Kawi Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑼞
U+11F1E "𑼞" Kawi Letter Dda is a character from the Kawi script, an ancient writing system used historically across maritime Southeast Asia, particularly in Java, Bali, and Sumatra, for writing Old Javanese, Sanskrit, and other regional languages. This specific letter represents the voiced retroflex stop consonant sound, often transliterated as "ḍḍa" or "dda," and is part of the script's consonant inventory that was employed in inscriptional and literary texts from roughly the 8th to the 16th century. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and accurate representation of historical texts that use this syllabic script, contributing to the study of Southeast Asian linguistics, epigraphy, and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11F1E |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Kawi Letter Dda |
| Block | Kawi |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑼞 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑼞 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xBC 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDF1E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011F1E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udf1e |