U+1880 "ᢀ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Anusvara One Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1880 "ᢀ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Anusvara One is a glyph used in the Mongolian script, specifically within the Ali Gali system, which was developed to transcribe foreign sounds, particularly from Sanskrit and Tibetan, into Mongolian writing. This character represents a type of anusvara, a diacritical mark employed to indicate nasalization, and it is classified as a combining mark that modifies the pronunciation of a preceding vowel or consonant. It is part of the larger Mongolian block in Unicode, designed to support historical and liturgical texts where precise phonetic representation is necessary. The inclusion of U+1880 helps preserve the accurate transcription of Buddhist and other religious manuscripts that rely on the Ali Gali variant characters.

General Properties

Code Point U+1880
Version Added 3.0
Name Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Anusvara One
Block Mongolian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᢀ
HTML Hex Encoding ᢀ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA2 0x80
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1880
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001880
C/C++/Java Escape \u1880

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 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