U+189B "ᢛ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+189B "ᢛ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Nga is a specific glyph within the Unicode standard used for the Mongolian script, but it belongs to an extended subset known as the Ali Gali letters, which were historically employed to transcribe foreign sounds, particularly from Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Chinese, into Mongolian writing. This character represents the sound "nga" and was primarily utilized in Manchu-influenced transcriptions and Buddhist texts to accurately render non-Mongolian phonemes. Its existence highlights the adaptability of the Mongolian script to linguistic borrowing and the importance of preserving historical transcription practices in digital encoding.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+189B |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Nga |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x189B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000189B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u189b |