U+1A04 "ᨄ" Buginese Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A04 "ᨄ" Buginese Letter Pa is a symbol from the Lontara script, historically used to write the Buginese language of Sulawesi, Indonesia, where it represents the consonant sound "pa". This character belongs to the Buginese block within the Unicode Standard, encoded specifically to preserve and enable digital use of this traditional writing system, which is written from left to right and lacks inherent vowel markings, requiring diacritics to indicate vowels in modern usage. Its inclusion in Unicode supports linguistic research, cultural heritage documentation, and electronic text representation for the Buginese community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A04 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Buginese Letter Pa |
| Block | Buginese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨄ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨄ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0x84 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A04 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A04 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a04 |