U+1B1A "ᬚ" Balinese Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B1A "ᬚ" Balinese Letter Ja is a symbol from the Balinese script, primarily used to write the Balinese language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali. This character represents the consonant sound "ja" and is part of a complex abugida system where each character's inherent vowel "a" can be modified by diacritical marks. The Balinese script is closely related to the Javanese script and is derived from the ancient Brahmi family of scripts. Today, the Balinese Letter Ja is employed in cultural and religious contexts, such as traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and temple inscriptions, and it is also supported in modern digital typography for preserving Balinese heritage and language education.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B1A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter Ja |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B1A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b1a |