U+1820 "ᠠ" Mongolian Letter A Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Mongolian
Script Extensions Mongolian
Indic Syllabic Category Other
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