U+11918 "𑤘" Dives Akuru Letter Dda Unicode Character

U+11918 "𑤘" Dives Akuru Letter Dda is a character from the Dives Akuru script, an historical abugida used primarily in the Maldives to write the Maldivian language, also known as Divehi. This particular letter represents the voiced retroflex stop consonant sound "ḍa," as in the English "d" but articulated with the tongue curled back. The Dives Akuru script was employed from approximately the 9th to the 19th centuries, eventually being supplanted by the Thaana script, and its characters like U+11918 are now of interest to scholars for the study of Maldivian epigraphy and historical linguistics.