U+1B23 "ᬣ" Balinese Letter Ta Tawa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B23 "ᬣ" Balinese Letter Ta Tawa is a specific glyph used in the Balinese script, an abugida primarily employed to write the Balinese language on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as in some religious and cultural contexts. This particular character represents the syllable "ta" with the inherent vowel "a," and its form belongs to the consonant class of tawa, a variant of the standard "Ta" letter. In written Balinese, it appears within traditional palm-leaf manuscripts, temple inscriptions, and modern digital texts, preserving the island's linguistic and artistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B23 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter Ta Tawa |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B23 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B23 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b23 |