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khudawadi letter bba

Khudawadi Letter Bba

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𑋕 is the Khudawadi letter bba, a consonant read as part of Sindhi writing rather than as a standalone message. Khudawadi grew from Landa-based writing used by merchants around Hyderabad, Sindh, and later served schools, administration, courts, and books. A lone letter works best as a script sample or heritage reference.

Text symbol

What 𑋕 means

𑋕 is a consonant letter in the Khudawadi script. Its reading comes from the surrounding Khudawadi spelling; by itself, it has no fixed message or reaction meaning.

Khudawadi developed from a local Landa-based writing tradition associated with merchant communities around Hyderabad, Sindh. In the 1860s, a standard form was developed from Khudawadi with additions from the Shikarpur script. The older script was used for routine writing, accounts, and business records, then also for education, administration, court records, and books.

Khudawadi belongs to the Landa script family and is related to Sharada. By the late 19th century, an Arabic-based script had become the official script for Sindhi, replacing Khudawadi in that role.

Why does 𑋕 show as a box?

The font may not include Khudawadi. The character is text, and a font without the right glyph may show a blank box or fallback mark instead. That changes what you see, not which character the text contains.

To enter it, use a Unicode-aware editor’s character-insertion tool and a font that supports Khudawadi. When writing Khudawadi text, keep the letter’s vowel signs or virama sequence intact; the virama can join consonants into a cluster. The script runs from left to right.

Historical and specialist: alone, 𑋕 reads as a Khudawadi letter or heritage reference.

A recipient who does not read Khudawadi may not know what a lone letter means.

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Who writes 𑋕

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Usually a script sample or heritage reference; its context must supply any personal meaning.

Questions people ask

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Why does 𑋕 show as a box on some devices?

Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.

How to type or find 𑋕

Also called
Khudabadi Bba
Search it as
bba · khudawadi · khudabadi · hathvanki · warangi · sindhi
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 112D5, then AltX to get 𑋕.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “khudawadi letter bba”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 112d5, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𑋕
CSS
\112D5
Unicode-aware editor
Use its character-insertion tool and a font that supports Khudawadi; this is a text letter, not an emoji-keyboard item.
Khudawadi text
Keep the letter’s vowel signs or virama sequence intact when entering a word or consonant cluster.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𑋕
HTML hex
𑋕
CSS content
content: "\112D5";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%91%8B%95
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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