U+1918 "ᤘ" Limbu Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᤘ
U+1918 "ᤘ" Limbu Letter Wa is a character from the Limbu script, an abugida used primarily by the Limbu people of Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim to write the Limbu language, and it represents the consonant sound "wa." This specific letter, identified by the name "Limbu Letter Wa," is encoded in the Limbu block of the Unicode Standard, which was introduced to preserve and facilitate digital communication of this endangered language. It appears as a distinctive curved glyph that combines with vowel diacritics to form syllables, playing a crucial role in accurately transcribing the native phonetics of Limbu, particularly in linguistic documentation and modern text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1918 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Limbu Letter Wa |
| Block | Limbu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᤘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᤘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA4 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1918 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001918 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1918 |