U+1846 "ᡆ" Mongolian Letter Todo O Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1846 "ᡆ" Mongolian Letter Todo O is a specific glyph used in the Todo script, which is a clear, phonetically precise variant of the traditional Mongolian alphabet developed in the 17th century for writing the Oirat language. This character represents the short vowel /o/ and is distinguished from other similar O-shaped letters in the Mongolian Unicode block by its unique contextual joining forms, allowing it to appear in initial, medial, and final positions within a word. The Todo script, including this character, was created by the Oirat Buddhist monk Zaya Pandita to eliminate ambiguities in the classical Mongolian script, and today "ᡆ" remains a vital component for accurately representing Oirat, Kalmyk, and historically related texts in digital environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1846
Version Added 3.0
Name Mongolian Letter Todo O
Block Mongolian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᡆ
HTML Hex Encoding ᡆ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA1 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1846
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001846
C/C++/Java Escape \u1846

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