U+188D "ᢍ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ttha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+188D "ᢍ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ttha is a specialized glyph used in the traditional Mongolian script, specifically belonging to the Ali Gali subset of characters designed to represent foreign sounds not native to the Mongolian language. It denotes a retroflex unaspirated voiceless stop, equivalent to the Sanskrit letter ट (ṭha) or the sound "tth", and was historically employed in religious and scholarly texts to accurately transcribe Tibetan and Sanskrit terms, particularly within Buddhist liturgical writings. This character contributes to the broader Mongolian Unicode block's ability to faithfully reproduce multilingual and historical scripts, ensuring precise representation of transliterated foreign vocabulary in digital formats.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+188D |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ttha |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x188D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000188D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u188d |