U+AA19 "ꨙ" Cham Letter Dda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨙ
U+AA19 "ꨙ" Cham Letter Dda is a glyph from the Cham script, used primarily for writing the Eastern Cham language spoken in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia. This specific character represents the voiced retroflex stop consonant sound /ɖ/, akin to the "d" sound in English but pronounced with the tongue curled back. It belongs to the Cham script’s consonant inventory and appears within the Unicode block U+AA00 to U+AA5F, encoded to support the digital preservation of this historically significant Austronesian language and its cultural texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA19 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Dda |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA19 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA19 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa19 |