U+18A2 "ᢢ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18A2 "ᢢ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ssa is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script to represent a sound from the Manchu language, specifically the retroflex sibilant "ssa" as part of the Ali Gali system for writing Tibetan and Sanskrit loanwords. It belongs to the Mongolian block in Unicode and was encoded to support transliteration of foreign terms in Mongolian Buddhist texts. This character is rarely used in everyday Mongolian writing but is essential for accurate historical and liturgical transcriptions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18A2 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Ssa |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18A2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018A2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18a2 |