U+101B "ရ" Myanmar Letter Ra Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+101B "ရ" Myanmar Letter Ra is a character used in the Myanmar script to represent the consonant sound "ra," which is an approximant or trill depending on its phonetic context within languages like Burmese and Mon. It is part of the Myanmar block in the Unicode standard, which encodes characters for writing multiple languages in Myanmar (formerly Burma), including Burmese, Shan, and Karen. This letter appears in written texts as a rounded, spiral-like glyph that can be combined with various diacritics to denote different vowel sounds or tones, making it a fundamental component of the script's syllabary system.

General Properties

Code Point U+101B
Version Added 3.0
Name Myanmar Letter Ra
Block Myanmar
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ရ
HTML Hex Encoding ရ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x80 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x101B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000101B
C/C++/Java Escape \u101b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter