U+1B85 "ᮅ" Sundanese Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᮅ
U+1B85 "ᮅ" Sundanese Letter U is a distinct glyph from the Sundanese script, an abugida used historically and in modern contexts to write the Sundanese language of West Java, Indonesia. This character represents the vowel sound /u/, akin to the "oo" in the English word "boot," and is an essential component for spelling native Sundanese words as well as loanwords integrated into the language. As part of the Sundanese Unicode block, it helps preserve and digitize the region's cultural and linguistic heritage, enabling accurate text representation in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B85 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Letter U |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B85 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b85 |