U+1B36 "ᬶ" Balinese Vowel Sign Ulu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B36 "ᬶ" Balinese Vowel Sign Ulu is a combining diacritical mark used in the Balinese script, an abugida native to the Indonesian island of Bali, where it represents the vowel sound /u/. This sign is placed above a consonant letter to modify its inherent vowel from the default 'a' to 'u', functioning as a dependent vowel sign that cannot stand alone. It appears in the Balinese block of the Unicode Standard, supporting the digital preservation and accurate representation of the Balinese language in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B36 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Vowel Sign Ulu |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᬶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᬶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAC 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b36 |