U+1B43 "ᭃ" Balinese Vowel Sign Pepet Tedung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᭃ
U+1B43 "ᭃ" Balinese Vowel Sign Pepet Tedung is a combining diacritical mark used in the Balinese script, a writing system native to Bali, Indonesia, for writing the Balinese and Sasak languages. This character specifically modifies a consonant by representing the vowel sound /ə/, which is a mid-central vowel similar to the 'e' in the English word "the," with a diacritic that visually resembles a candrabindu or a crescent moon above the character, often interpreted as a "tedung" (umbrella) shape. It functions as an independent vowel sign for the pepet vowel, distinct from other vowel markers in the script, and is typically placed above the base consonant in a stacked manner to indicate the pronunciation change.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B43 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Balinese Vowel Sign Pepet Tedung |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Canonical |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ᭂ" U+1B42 Balinese Vowel Sign Pepet "ᬵ" U+1B35 Balinese Vowel Sign Tedung |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᭃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᭃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAD 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B43 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B43 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b43 |