U+1B9D "ᮝ" Sundanese Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᮝ
U+1B9D "ᮝ" Sundanese Letter Wa is a glyph used in the modern Sundanese script to represent the consonant sound /w/. It belongs to the Sundanese block of Unicode, which was added to support the writing system of the Sundanese language spoken primarily in West Java, Indonesia. This letter is typically combined with vowel diacritics to form syllables, and its design reflects the distinct curved and angular aesthetic of the traditional Sundanese script. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and digitize Sundanese cultural heritage, enabling its use in modern text processing and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1B9D |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Letter Wa |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1B9D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001B9D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1b9d |