What 𑘚 means
A retroflex d. In Modi script, Dda belongs within a word, not alone as a message.
Modi descends from Nagari, shaped for connected writing. A legend says Hemadri Pandit brought Modi from Sri Lanka; another credits Maratha court official Balaji Avaji with creating it. By the sixteenth century it served Marathi administration; its oldest surviving document dates to the early seventeenth century. Balbodh, Marathi’s Devanagari form, also carried literature and sacred writing. Print and policy marginalized Modi in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; official use ended in the 1950s.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𑘚 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 𑘚
𑘚\1161ACodes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.