U+18A0 "ᢠ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18A0 "ᢠ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ta is a specific glyph used in the Mongolian script, particularly within the Manchu and Ali Gali extensions designed to represent foreign sounds in Buddhist and Sanskrit-derived texts. This character denotes a retroflex or emphatic "ta" sound that is not native to standard Mongolian, instead being borrowed for transliterating Tibetan and Sanskrit vocabulary in religious and scholarly contexts. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the accurate digital representation of historical and liturgical writings where such specialized letters are essential for preserving phonetic precision.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18A0 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ta |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18A0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018A0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18a0 |