U+1171A "𑜚" Ahom Letter Alternate Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑜚
U+1171A "𑜚" Ahom Letter Alternate Ba is a character in the Ahom script, a historical abugida used to write the now-extinct Ahom language of the Tai people in present-day Assam, India. This specific glyph represents an alternative form of the consonant "ba," which is used in the writing system that was primarily employed for recording chronicles, religious texts, and legal documents from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The inclusion of such alternate letterforms in the Unicode Standard helps preserve the orthographic diversity found in historical Ahom manuscripts, ensuring that digital representations accurately reflect the script's scribal variations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1171A |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Ahom Letter Alternate Ba |
| Block | Ahom |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑜚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑜚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x9C 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDF1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001171A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udf1a |