U+189F "" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ddha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Mongolian Source: Browser Default

U+189F "" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ddha is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script, specifically within the Manchu Ali Gali extension, which was designed to represent sounds from foreign languages like Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese in Buddhist and scholarly texts. This character denotes a voiced retroflex or dental implosive sound, often transcribed as "ddha," and is part of a set of supplementary letters that allowed the traditional Mongolian script to accurately transcribe non-native phonemes. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that historical and religious manuscripts, particularly those involving Manchu transcriptions of Indian or Tibetan terms, can be digitally preserved and accurately displayed without corruption or substitution.

General Properties

Code Point
U+189F
Name
Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ddha

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ᢟ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᢟ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xA2 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding
0x189F
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000189F
C/C++/Java Escape
\u189f