U+1887 "ᢇ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1887 "ᢇ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali A is a specialized letter used in the Mongolian script to represent a transcription character for foreign sounds, specifically part of the Ali Gali system developed in the 16th century by Buddhist translators to render Sanskrit, Tibetan, and other Indic language terms into Mongolian. This character stands for a lowered or emphatic form of the vowel "A," helping to accurately transliterate the short vowel sound found in foreign loanwords during religious and scholarly translations. As a component of the Mongolian block in Unicode, it supports the accurate digital representation of historical texts, particularly those involving Buddhist canonical works.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1887 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Ali Gali A |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1887 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001887 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1887 |