U+188B "ᢋ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+188B "ᢋ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ca is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script to represent a foreign or borrowed sound, specifically the syllable "ca," as part of the Ali Gali extended alphabet system. This system was historically employed to transcribe Tibetan and Sanskrit terms in Mongolian texts, particularly in Buddhist religious contexts, allowing for accurate phonetic representation not covered by the standard Mongolian script. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Mongolian block, where it serves to preserve and digitize these liturgical and transliterational traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+188B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ca |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x188B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000188B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u188b |