U+A86B "ꡫ" Phags-Pa Letter Dda Unicode Character

U+A86B "ꡫ" Phags-Pa Letter Dda is a specific glyph from the Phags-Pa script, an abugida historically created during the Yuan Dynasty in China by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa at the order of Kublai Khan to uniformly write Mongolian, Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages. Representing a retroflex or voiced dental sound similar to [ɖ] or [d̪], this letter was part of a larger set designed to transliterate Sanskrit and indigenous Asian languages. Though the script fell out of common use after the Mongol Yuan dynasty ended, the Phags-Pa Letter Dda survives as a significant symbol in the study of medieval linguistic history and calligraphy.