U+1889 "ᢉ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1889 "ᢉ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ka is a specific glyph used within the Mongolian script to represent a foreign sound, primarily for transcribing loanwords and Sanskrit or Tibetan terms that do not occur natively in the Mongolian language. Its name "Ali Gali" refers to a special set of characters created for religious and scholarly texts, particularly in Buddhist contexts, to accurately render sounds from other languages. This character is distinct from the standard Mongolian letter Ka, as it carries a diacritical mark or modification that alters its phonetic value, making it an essential tool for precise transliteration in historical and liturgical writings.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1889 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ka |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1889 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001889 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1889 |