U+A9A3 "ꦣ" Javanese Letter Da Mahaprana Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꦣ
U+A9A3 "ꦣ" Javanese Letter Da Mahaprana is a glyph used in the Javanese script to represent the retroflex voiced aspirated stop sound /ɖʱ/, making it one of the letters that distinguishes aspirated consonants in the language's traditional orthography. It belongs to the "mahaprana" (or high-aspiration) group of Javanese consonants, which are typically used in writing Sanskrit loanwords and certain native Javanese terms. The letter is part of the Javanese Unicode block and is primarily employed in formal texts, historical documents, and cultural writings, though its usage has declined over time as modern Javanese is more commonly written in the Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9A3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Javanese Letter Da Mahaprana |
| Block | Javanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꦣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꦣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA6 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9A3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9A3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9a3 |