U+188C "ᢌ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Tta Unicode Character

U+188C "ᢌ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Tta is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script to represent a retroflex or dental voiceless stop sound, specifically for transcribing the Sanskrit letter "ṭṭa" in Buddhist texts. This character belongs to the Ali Gali subset of the Mongolian block, which was developed to accurately render foreign sounds, particularly from Sanskrit and Tibetan, during the translation of religious scriptures. Its visual form is a modification of the standard Mongolian letter "ta," distinguished by an added diacritical mark or variation in stroke that indicates its unique phonetic value.