U+1886 "ᢆ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Three Baluda Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1886 "ᢆ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Three Baluda is a specialized diacritical mark used in the Mongolian Ali Gali script, an extended writing system developed in the 16th and 17th centuries to accurately transcribe foreign sounds, particularly from Sanskrit and Tibetan, in Buddhist texts. This character consists of three baluda, which are small dot-like marks, stacked vertically above a base letter to modify its pronunciation. It specifically indicates a long vocalic or consonantal quality, often representing a lengthened or emphatic phonetic feature not present in standard Mongolian. The Ali Gali subset of the Unicode Mongolian block preserves these historical orthographic symbols for scholars and digital typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1886 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Three Baluda |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1886 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001886 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1886 |