U+1A0D "ᨍ" Buginese Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A0D "ᨍ" Buginese Letter Ja is a specific glyph used in the Lontara script, which is traditionally employed to write the Buginese language of Sulawesi, Indonesia. This character represents the consonant sound "ja" and forms part of an abugida writing system, where each character denotes a consonant with an inherent vowel that can be modified by diacritical marks. The Lontara script, including the letter Ja, is historically important for preserving Buginese literature and cultural texts, though its daily use has declined in favor of the Latin alphabet.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A0D |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Buginese Letter Ja |
| Block | Buginese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A0D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A0D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a0d |