U+18AA "ᢪ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Lha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+18AA "ᢪ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Lha is a specialized glyph used in the Mongolian script to represent a transliterated sound from the Tibetan and Sanskrit languages, particularly the syllable "lha," which is not part of the standard Mongolian phonetic inventory. It belongs to the Ali Gali set, an extended collection of characters created for accurately writing Buddhist texts and loanwords in the Manchu and Mongolian writing systems. This letter is encoded in the Unicode block for Mongolian, specifically within the subset dedicated to these additional letters, and it serves a critical role in preserving the precise pronunciation of religious and scholarly terms borrowed from Sanskrit and Tibetan traditions.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18AA |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Manchu Ali Gali Lha |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᢪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᢪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA2 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x18AA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x000018AA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u18aa |