U+1B8A "ᮊ" Sundanese Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᮊ
U+1B8A "ᮊ" Sundanese Letter Ka is used in the modern Sundanese script to represent the voiceless velar plosive sound /k/, analogous to the letter 'k' in the Latin alphabet. This character belongs to the Sundanese block of Unicode, which was added to support the written form of the Sundanese language, primarily spoken in the western part of Java, Indonesia. The character "ᮊ" appears in texts, signage, and digital communications as a core element of the Sundanese writing system, which was standardized and revived in the late 20th century.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B8A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Letter Ka |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B8A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B8A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b8a |