U+103D "ွ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+103D "ွ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Wa is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar script to indicate a medial /w/ sound within a syllable. It appears as a subscript-like character attached beneath the base consonant, modifying its pronunciation by adding a labial glide before the following vowel. This sign is essential for correctly representing many words in the Burmese language and is part of the standard set of medial consonants in the Myanmar orthographic system.

General Properties

Code Point U+103D
Version Added 5.1
Name Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Wa
Block Myanmar
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ွ
HTML Hex Encoding ွ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x80 0xBD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x103D
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000103D
C/C++/Java Escape \u103d

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Medial
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend