U+11A29 "𑨩" Zanabazar Square Letter -A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+11A29 "𑨩" Zanabazar Square Letter -A is a glyph from the Zanabazar Square script, an abugida historically used to write the Mongolian and Tibetan languages, particularly for Buddhist texts. This specific character represents the vowel sound "a" and is part of a writing system invented in the 17th century by the influential Mongolian Buddhist monk and scholar Zanabazar. The script is characterized by its square, geometric letterforms, which were designed to be elegant and legible for religious manuscripts. Today, the Zanabazar Square script is recognized as an important piece of Mongolian cultural heritage, though it is no longer in common daily use, with this character preserved in the Unicode standard to allow for its digital representation and study.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𑨩 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𑨩 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x91 0xA8 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD806 0xDE29 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00011A29 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud806\ude29 |
Unicode Properties