U+1A00 "ᨀ" Buginese Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A00 "ᨀ" Buginese Letter Ka is a character from the Buginese script, which is used to write the Buginese language of Sulawesi, Indonesia. This script, historically written on palm leaves with a sharp stylus, is an abugida where each consonant carries an inherent vowel sound, and the letter Ka represents the first and primary consonant in its syllable block. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the Buginese block, allowing modern digital communication and preservation of this traditional writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A00 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Buginese Letter Ka |
| Block | Buginese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a00 |