U+189F "ᢟ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ddha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+189F "ᢟ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ddha is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script, specifically within the Manchu Ali Gali extension, which was designed to represent sounds from foreign languages like Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese in Buddhist and scholarly texts. This character denotes a voiced retroflex or dental implosive sound, often transcribed as "ddha," and is part of a set of supplementary letters that allowed the traditional Mongolian script to accurately transcribe non-native phonemes. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical and religious manuscripts, particularly those involving Manchu transcriptions of Indian or Tibetan terms, can be digitally preserved and accurately displayed without corruption or substitution.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᢟ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᢟ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xA2 0x9F |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x189F |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000189F |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u189f |
Unicode Properties