U+11F2E "𑼮" Kawi Letter Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

𑼮

U+11F2E "𑼮" Kawi Letter Wa is a glyph representing the syllable "wa" in the Kawi script, an ancient abugida historically used across maritime Southeast Asia to write Old Javanese, Balinese, and other languages. This character is part of the Kawi block, which was added to Unicode in version 15.0 in 2022 to support the digital preservation of classical texts and inscriptions from the region. Visually, it resembles a stylized circular form with a descending tail, typical of Kawi’s cursive aesthetic, and it functions as a consonant letter with an inherent vowel a, which can be modified by diacritical marks. The inclusion of this letter enables accurate representation of historical manuscripts, such as those found on Javanese temple reliefs or Balinese palm-leaf manuscripts, ensuring that researchers and speakers can encode and share these culturally significant writings in modern digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+11F2E
Version Added 15.0
Name Kawi Letter Wa
Block Kawi
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑼮
HTML Hex Encoding 𑼮
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xBC 0xAE
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD807 0xDF2E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011F2E
C/C++/Java Escape \ud807\udf2e

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