U+1B06 "ᬆ" Balinese Letter Akara Tedung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᬆ
U+1B06 "ᬆ" Balinese Letter Akara Tedung is a glyph used in the Balinese script to represent a specific vowel sound, functioning as the independent or standalone form of the vowel /aː/ (a long "a") that does not require a base consonant. It is often written with a distinctive "tedung" or diacritical mark, which indicates the lengthened vowel quality, and it plays a key role in the orthography of the Balinese language, particularly in writing sacred texts, traditional literature, and cultural materials where precise vowel pronunciation is important.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B06 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter Akara Tedung |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᬅ" U+1B05 Balinese Letter Akara "ᬵ" U+1B35 Balinese Vowel Sign Tedung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b06 |