U+A817 "ꠗ" Syloti Nagri Letter Dho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+A817 "ꠗ" Syloti Nagri Letter Dho is a specific glyph used in the Syloti Nagri script, which was historically employed to write the Sylheti language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and northeastern India. This letter represents the aspirated consonant sound /dʱ/, akin to the "dh" sound in English words like "dhood" but with breathy release. It is part of a broader set of Syloti Nagri characters encoded in the Unicode standard to preserve and digitally represent this endangered script, which is culturally significant for Sylheti literature and religious texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A817
Name
Syloti Nagri Letter Dho
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꠗ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꠗ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA0 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA817
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A817
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua817
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Syloti Nagri