U+11F2B "饝极" Kawi Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+11F2B "饝极" Kawi Letter Ya is a glyph representing the consonant 'ya' in the Kawi script, an ancient abugida historically used across Maritime Southeast Asia, including regions of modern-day Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, to write languages such as Old Javanese, Balinese, and Sanskrit. This character is part of the Kawi block of Unicode, encoded to preserve this historical writing system for scholarly, linguistic, and cultural heritage documentation. The Kawi Letter Ya, like others in the script, has a distinctive curved shape typical of its Brahmic origins, and it functions as a syllabic unit that can be modified by diacritics to represent different vowel sounds. As a digital representation of a key character from a script that was foundational to the literary and religious texts of early Southeast Asian civilizations, its inclusion in Unicode supports modern research and accessibility to ancient manuscripts and inscriptions.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𑼫 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𑼫 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x91 0xBC 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD807 0xDF2B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00011F2B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud807\udf2b |
Unicode Properties