U+1920 "ᤠ" Limbu Vowel Sign A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1920 "ᤠ" Limbu Vowel Sign A is a combining diacritical mark used in the Limbu script, which is native to the Limbu people of Nepal, Bhutan, and northeastern India. This vowel sign modifies a preceding consonant character to represent the vowel sound "a" by attaching to it as a dependent glyph, typically appearing above and to the left of the base consonant in written text. It is part of the Limbu block in Unicode, encoded to facilitate digital representation and preservation of the Limbu language, which uses an abugida writing system where inherent vowels are altered by such signs. The character contributes to accurately rendering Limbu orthography in modern computing and communication contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1920 |
| Version Added | 4.0 |
| Name | Limbu Vowel Sign A |
| Block | Limbu |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᤠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᤠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA4 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1920 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001920 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1920 |