U+1B4C "ᭌ" Balinese Letter Archaic Jnya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara
Script Balinese
Script Extensions Balinese
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter