U+1B97 "ᮗ" Sundanese Letter Va Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1B97 "ᮗ" Sundanese Letter Va is a distinct consonant letter used in the traditional Sundanese script of West Java, Indonesia, representing the sound /va/. This character, called "va" in Sundanese, is primarily employed to transcribe foreign loanwords, particularly those from Arabic or Dutch, where the native Sundanese language does not commonly have the /v/ phoneme. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text, such as in historical manuscripts or modern typing, can accurately represent this borrowed sound within the Sundanese writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B97 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Letter Va |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B97 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B97 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b97 |