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ol chiki letter ott

Ol Chiki letter ott

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ᱴ is Santali’s Ol Chiki letter for retroflex t: pronounce t with the tongue tip curled back. Raghunath Murmu devised Ol Chiki in 1925 to fit Santali; early writing includes his notes and woodblock prints. Its first printed book, Hor Sereng, appeared in 1936, before a 1939 public demonstration. As of 2026, Ol Chiki can mark Santal identity while Santali is written in several scripts.

Text symbol

What ᱴ means

ᱴ is the ol chiki letter ott. Unicode classifies it as a letter and files it in the Ol Chiki block; this site shelves it under Indian scripts.

Its appearance depends on the font and text styling.

How it is encoded

ᱴ is a single code point, U1C74. In HTML that is ᱴ, and in CSS \1C74.

Part of the collection

Who writes ᱴ

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What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings

The curled-back t sound.

Combination ideas

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A curled-back t with a puff of breath.

Questions people ask

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Why does ᱴ show as a box?

The selected font may lack this Ol Chiki glyph; another font with Ol Chiki coverage should display it.

How to type or find ᱴ

Search it as
ott · ol chiki ott · ol chiki t · retroflex t · ṭ
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1C74, then AltX to get ᱴ.
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 “ol chiki letter ott”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1c74, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ᱴ
CSS
\1C74
Ol Chiki layouts
The 2019 guide maps T to ᱴ in Sarjom baha and semicolon to ᱴ in InScript2.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ᱴ
HTML hex
ᱴ
CSS content
content: "\1C74";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E1%B1%B4
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
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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Indian scripts3,440 symbols