U+1A12 "ᨒ" Buginese Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A12 "ᨒ" Buginese Letter La is a character from the Buginese script, known as Lontara, which is traditionally used to write the Buginese language of Sulawesi, Indonesia. It represents the consonant sound "la" and forms part of the script's syllabic system, where each character inherently includes a vowel sound, typically 'a', unless modified by diacritics. This specific letter is encoded in the Unicode standard under the version 5.1 release of 2008, allowing for digital representation and preservation of this historical script in modern text processing systems.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A12
Version Added 4.1
Name Buginese Letter La
Block Buginese
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨒ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨒ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A12
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A12
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a12

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Buginese
Script Extensions Buginese
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter