U+189A "ᢚ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+189A "ᢚ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Gha is a specialized glyph used in the extended Mongolian script to represent a foreign or borrowed sound, specifically the voiced velar fricative "gha," which is not native to standard Mongolian phonology. It belongs to the Ali Gali subset of characters, a system devised by Buddhist translators in the seventeenth century to transcribe Tibetan, Sanskrit, and other Indian language words with high fidelity. This particular form, the "Manchu" variant, reflects the script's adaptation in Manchu writing for similar transliteration purposes, ensuring precise phonetic representation in religious, historical, and scholarly texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+189A |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Gha |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x189A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000189A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u189a |