U+A86B "ꡫ" Phags-Pa Letter Dda Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A86B "ꡫ" Phags-Pa Letter Dda is a specific glyph from the Phags-Pa script, an abugida historically created during the Yuan Dynasty in China by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa at the order of Kublai Khan to uniformly write Mongolian, Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages. Representing a retroflex or voiced dental sound similar to [ɖ] or [d̪], this letter was part of a larger set designed to transliterate Sanskrit and indigenous Asian languages. Though the script fell out of common use after the Mongol Yuan dynasty ended, the Phags-Pa Letter Dda survives as a significant symbol in the study of medieval linguistic history and calligraphy.

General Properties

Code Point U+A86B
Version Added 5.0
Name Phags-Pa Letter Dda
Block Phags-pa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꡫ
HTML Hex Encoding ꡫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA1 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA86B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A86B
C/C++/Java Escape \ua86b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Phags Pa
Script Extensions Phags Pa
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter