U+0D26 "ദ" Malayalam Letter Da Unicode Character

U+0D26 "ദ" Malayalam Letter Da is a voiced dental plosive consonant used in the Malayalam script, which serves as the primary writing system for the Malayalam language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Kerala. This character represents the sound /d̪a/, produced by briefly stopping airflow with the tongue against the upper teeth before releasing it, distinguishing it from retorflex consonants in the same language. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Malayalam block, which encodes characters for modern and classical Malayalam texts, and it typically appears as the initial or medial component in many common words.