U+1B03 "ᬃ" Balinese Sign Surang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᬃ
U+1B03 "ᬃ" Balinese Sign Surang is a diacritical mark used in the Balinese script, a Brahmic abugida employed to write the Balinese language of Indonesia. This sign is a vowel-dependent marker that modifies the inherent vowel of a syllable, effectively canceling it to create a syllable-final consonant sound. Placed above or attached to a base character, it indicates the absence of a following vowel, similar to a virama or halant in other scripts. Its use is essential for accurately representing the phonetics of written Balinese, particularly in rendering final consonants in words and in traditional texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B03 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Sign Surang |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B03 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B03 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b03 |