U+A812 "ꠒ" Syloti Nagri Letter Ddo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠒ
U+A812 "ꠒ" Syloti Nagri Letter Ddo is a glyph from the Syloti Nagri script, historically used to write the Sylheti language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India. This specific character represents the voiced retroflex plosive sound /ɖ/, similar to the English "d" sound but pronounced with the tongue curled back against the roof of the mouth. It is part of a set of characters encoded in the Unicode Standard to preserve and digitally support the Syloti Nagri script, which has seen a revival in modern typography and communication, ensuring the language, with its rich literary and cultural heritage, can be accurately represented in digital text and documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A812 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Letter Ddo |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA812 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A812 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua812 |