U+1B2A "ᬪ" Balinese Letter Ba Kembang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B2A "ᬪ" Balinese Letter Ba Kembang is a consonant used in the Balinese script, which is indigenous to the Indonesian island of Bali and is employed for writing the Balinese and Sasak languages. This particular glyph represents the sound "ba" and is distinguished by its ornate "kembang" (meaning "flower" in Indonesian) style, featuring decorative curls and flourishes that are characteristic of ceremonial or calligraphic writing. It belongs to the Balinese block of Unicode, introduced in version 5.0 in 2006, and is encoded for use in digital text to preserve the traditional Balinese writing system, which is increasingly supported in modern computing environments for cultural and linguistic documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B2A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter Ba Kembang |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B2A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b2a |