U+1B2D "ᬭ" Balinese Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B2D "ᬭ" Balinese Letter Ra is a consonant in the Balinese script, an abugida used to write the Balinese language spoken on the Indonesian island of Bali. This character represents the sound /ra/ when it appears with its inherent vowel, and it can be modified with diacritical marks to change the accompanying vowel sound. The letter Ra is part of a larger set of approximately 18 core consonants in the Balinese script, which also includes letters for sounds like Ka, Ga, and Ba, and it often appears in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and modern signage. Its visual form is characterized by a curved, flowing shape that reflects the script’s stylistic heritage from Southeast Asian Brahmi-derived writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B2D |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter Ra |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B2D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B2D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b2d |