U+1899 "ᢙ" Mongolian Letter Todo Ali Gali Zha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1899 "ᢙ" Mongolian Letter Todo Ali Gali Zha is a glyph used in the Mongolian script, specifically part of the Todo (or Clear) script variant, which was developed in the 17th century for the Oirat language. This character represents the "Zha" sound and belongs to a specialized subset called Ali Gali letters, which were created to accurately transcribe foreign sounds, particularly from Sanskrit and Tibetan, into Mongolian writing. It appears in the Unicode block for Mongolian and is primarily employed in historical or religious texts where precise phonetic transcription is necessary, though it is rarely used in modern everyday Mongolian or Todo script contexts.

General Properties

Code Point U+1899
Version Added 3.0
Name Mongolian Letter Todo Ali Gali Zha
Block Mongolian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᢙ
HTML Hex Encoding ᢙ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA2 0x99
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1899
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001899
C/C++/Java Escape \u1899

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Mongolian
Script Extensions Mongolian
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter