U+1017 "ဗ" Myanmar Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ဗ
U+1017 "ဗ" Myanmar Letter Ba is a character in the Myanmar script used to represent the voiced bilabial stop sound "b" in languages such as Burmese, Mon, and Shan. This character belongs to the Myanmar block of the Unicode standard and is encoded with a specific glyph shape that distinguishes it from other similar letters in the script. In the Burmese writing system, "ဗ" is part of the consonant inventory and can be combined with various diacritics and vowel signs to form syllables, playing a key role in representing both native and loanwords within the language's orthography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1017 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Ba |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ဗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ဗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1017 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001017 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1017 |