U+188E "ᢎ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+188E "ᢎ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Dda is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script to represent a retroflex or extra-lingual sound, typically transliterated as "dd" or "dda." It belongs to the Ali Gali set of characters, which were historically employed in Mongolian Buddhist texts to accurately transcribe foreign words, particularly from Tibetan and Sanskrit, thereby enabling the correct pronunciation of sacred terms and mantras. This character is distinct from the standard Mongolian letters, as it adds a diacritical mark or modified shape to indicate a sound not native to the traditional Mongolian phonology, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard within the Mongolian block (U+1800 to U+18AF) to support digital representation and preservation of these liturgical and historical documents.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᢎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᢎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xA2 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x188E |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000188E |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u188e |
Unicode Properties