U+1B39 "ᬹ" Balinese Vowel Sign Suku Ilut Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1B39 "ᬹ" Balinese Vowel Sign Suku Ilut is a combining diacritical mark used in the Balinese script, an abugida employed to write the Balinese language primarily on the Indonesian island of Bali. This specific vowel sign modifies a consonant by adding the vowel sound "u" (similar to the English "oo" in "moon") but with a distinct double-consonant or lengthened pronunciation indicated by the term "ilut," which implies a slurred or gliding articulation. Visually, it appears as a small, complex glyph attached below and to the right of the base consonant character, altering the syllable's phonetics while maintaining the inherent consonant structure. This grapheme is part of a broader system of Balinese vowel diacritics that enable the script to represent the full range of sounds in the language, and it is encoded in the Unicode Standard under the U+1B00–U+1B7F range for Balinese script to facilitate digital text processing and preservation of the language's writing tradition.

General Properties

Code Point U+1B39
Version Added 5.0
Name Balinese Vowel Sign Suku Ilut
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 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1B39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001B39
C/C++/Java Escape \u1b39

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Balinese
Script Extensions Balinese
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Dependent
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend