U+0256 LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL

The Unicode character U+0256, officially named LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH TAIL, was introduced in Unicode version 1.1. It is part of the IPA Ext block, which belongs to the Basic Multilingual plane. Previously, it was also referred to as LATIN SMALL LETTER D RETROFLEX HOOK.

Categorized technically as a Lowercase Letter, this character typically falls under the Latin script. In terms of text layout and rendering, the glyph is not a composition and has no designated width in East Asian typography. When placed in bidirectional text, it behaves as an Left-To-Right character. Its visual representation remains not mirrored regardless of the reading direction.