U+1820 "ᠠ" Mongolian Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1820 "ᠠ" Mongolian Letter A is a fundamental letter in the Mongolian script, representing the vowel sound /a/ and serving as the first character in the traditional Mongolian alphabet order. It is encoded in the Unicode standard's Mongolian block, which was introduced to support the vertical script used for writing the Mongolian language, as well as related languages like Manchu and Sibe. This character is typically positioned at the initial, medial, or final form within a word depending on its context, and it plays a crucial role in the phonetic and orthographic structure of the Mongolian writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1820 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter A |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᠠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᠠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA0 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1820 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001820 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1820 |