U+A817 "ꠗ" Syloti Nagri Letter Dho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠗ
U+A817 "ꠗ" Syloti Nagri Letter Dho is a specific glyph used in the Syloti Nagri script, which was historically employed to write the Sylheti language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and northeastern India. This letter represents the aspirated consonant sound /dʱ/, akin to the "dh" sound in English words like "dhood" but with breathy release. It is part of a broader set of Syloti Nagri characters encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and digitally represent this endangered script, which is culturally significant for Sylheti literature and religious texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A817 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Letter Dho |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA817 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A817 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua817 |