U+1A15 "ᨕ" Buginese Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A15 "ᨕ" Buginese Letter A is a character from the Lontara script, the traditional writing system of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, and it represents the vowel sound "a" in the Buginese language, often functioning as a base consonant carrier in the abugida writing system. It is encoded in the Unicode block titled Buginese, which ranges from U+1A00 to U+1A1F, and its glyph is a distinctive hook-like shape that is fundamental to writing the language. This character is used in historical manuscripts and modern digital contexts to preserve and represent the written form of Buginese, an Austronesian language with a rich literary tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A15 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Buginese Letter A |
| Block | Buginese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨕ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨕ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0x95 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A15 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A15 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a15 |