U+1BAB "᮫" Sundanese Sign Virama Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BAB "᮫" Sundanese Sign Virama is a combining mark used in the Sundanese script, an abugida native to the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. Its primary function is to suppress the inherent vowel of a consonant character, effectively creating a consonant cluster or a final (dead) consonant without an accompanying vowel sound. This virama is visually represented as a small, curved diacritical mark placed above or near the base consonant, similar in function to the halant in Devanagari or the virama in other Brahmic scripts, and is essential for accurately representing the phonetic structure of the Sundanese language in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BAB |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Sign Virama |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮫ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮫ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0xAB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BAB |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BAB |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bab |