Modi Letter Tta

It represents a retroflex “t” sound.

The sound is made by curling the tongue tip back to the roof of the mouth and releasing it. Modi consonants usually carry an inherent short “a”; a vowel sign, or a mark that removes the vowel, changes the reading.

Why did Modi become Marathi's record-keeping script?

Its flowing forms helped scribes write quickly. Modi grew from Nagari, a related Indian script, and was shaped for continuous writing with fewer pen lifts. Marathi court scribes used it for orders, letters, land and revenue records; Balbodh, Marathi's form of Devanagari, served more literary and sacred writing. Some records mix Marathi with Persian.

A history of Marathi writing places Modi use as early as the 15th century; Unicode describes the script emerging in the 16th and cites an earliest surviving document from the early 17th. These mark reported use, script development and surviving evidence, not one settled starting date.

With print, Balbodh Devanagari gained ground in the 19th century and Modi use declined. Modi was formally discontinued as Marathi's standard in the 1950s. By 2023, a history lecture described renewed interest in Modi as a marker of Marathi heritage and of the early modern Maratha state, a regional power led by Marathi rulers.

How do I type 𑘘?

Use Unicode hex input for one letter, or a Modi layout for longer text.

In an editor that accepts Unicode hexadecimal input, enter U+11618 and trigger that editor's conversion command. For longer Marathi text, use a Modi keyboard or convert Balbodh Devanagari text into Modi.

Modi font shaping adjusts consonant-vowel and consonant clusters to their neighbors. A different displayed form can be a contextual shape of the same letter.