U+1A13 "ᨓ" Buginese Letter Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A13 "ᨓ" Buginese Letter Va is a glyph used in the Buginese script, known as Lontara, which is traditionally employed to write the Buginese and Makassar languages of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. This character represents the syllable "va" or a voiced labiodental fricative sound, though its phonetic value can vary depending on the linguistic context and regional dialect. It is part of a Unicode block specifically designated for the Buginese script, which was added to the standard to support digital encoding of this historical writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A13 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Buginese Letter Va |
| Block | Buginese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A13 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A13 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a13 |