U+11A20 "𑨠" Zanabazar Square Letter Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑨠

U+11A20 "𑨠" Zanabazar Square Letter Ba is a glyph from the Zanabazar Square script, which was created in the late 17th century by the Mongolian Buddhist monk and scholar Zanabazar. This script was designed to write Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit, primarily for religious and scholarly purposes, and it features a distinctive angular, square-like appearance that mimics the layout of Tibetan calligraphy while maintaining its own structural integrity. The letter Ba represents the consonant sound "b" and holds a place within the script's consonant inventory, used in the transcription of sacred texts and historical documents. Today, it is part of the Unicode standard to preserve and digitally support this rare and culturally significant writing system, which fell out of common use but remains important for historical and linguistic study.

General Properties

Code Point U+11A20
Version Added 10.0
Name Zanabazar Square Letter Ba
Block Zanabazar Square
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑨠
HTML Hex Encoding 𑨠
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDE20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011A20
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\ude20

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 Alphabetic
Script Zanabazar Square
Script Extensions Zanabazar Square
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter