U+1B4C "ᭌ" Balinese Letter Archaic Jnya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᭌ
U+1B4C "ᭌ" Balinese Letter Archaic Jnya is a rare and historical glyph from the Balinese script, used primarily in ancient or ceremonial texts rather than in modern everyday writing. It represents a distinct variation of the Jnya consonant, which itself is a palatal sound (approximating the "ny" in "canyon"), but this archaic form indicates an older or more specialized orthographic tradition within Balinese literature and palm-leaf manuscripts. The character belongs to the Balinese Unicode block (U+1B00 to U+1B7F) and is encoded to support the preservation and digital representation of classical Balinese language documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B4C |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Balinese Letter Archaic Jnya |
| Block | Balinese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᭌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᭌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAD 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b4c |