U+1B0E "ᬎ" Balinese Letter La Lenga Tedung Unicode Character
U+1B0E "ᬎ" Balinese Letter La Lenga Tedung is a consonant letter from the Balinese script, an abugida used primarily for writing the Balinese language on the Indonesian island of Bali. The name "La Lenga Tedung" translates roughly to "the letter 'la' with a lenga (a diacritic) and a tedung (a crown-like mark)," indicating it represents the syllable "la" with a specific vowel sign or modification. This character is part of the Balinese block in Unicode, which encodes the traditional script used in religious texts, literature, and ceremonial inscriptions. Its design features a distinctive curved shape with a top ornamentation that reflects the artistic style of Balinese calligraphy, and it is still occasionally used in modern contexts such as signage and digital typography to preserve cultural heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B0E |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter La Lenga Tedung |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᬍ" U+1B0D Balinese Letter La Lenga "ᬵ" U+1B35 Balinese Vowel Sign Tedung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B0E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B0E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b0e |