U+1838 "ᠸ" Mongolian Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+1838 "ᠸ" Mongolian Letter Wa is a character used in the traditional Mongolian script, representing a consonant that is typically transliterated as "w" and pronounced as a voiced labial approximant or fricative in words of foreign origin. It is part of the Unicode block for Mongolian, which was encoded to support the classical Mongolian alphabet used for writing the Mongolian language, as well as for Manchu and Sibe. The letter "Wa" is considered a variant or extension of the core Mongolian script, as the native Mongolian phonetic inventory does not originally include the "w" sound, making this character necessary for representing loanwords, particularly from Chinese, Russian, and Tibetan. In written Mongolian, the glyph connects to neighboring letters in accordance with the script's cursive rules, and its shape is distinct from other similar letters to avoid confusion.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ᠸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ᠸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xE1 0xA0 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0x1838 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00001838 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\u1838 |
Unicode Properties