U+1BAD "ᮭ" Sundanese Consonant Sign Pasangan Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1BAD "ᮭ" Sundanese Consonant Sign Pasangan Wa is a combining mark used in the Sundanese script, native to the Sundanese people of West Java, Indonesia. It serves as a virama or halant-like sign that eliminates the inherent vowel of a preceding consonant, specifically indicating that the consonant is followed by the sound "wa" in a conjunct or subscript form. This character is written as a diacritical mark below or after a base consonant, allowing for complex syllable structures without an intervening vowel, and is essential for accurately representing the phonetics of the Sundanese language in modern digital text.

General Properties

Code Point U+1BAD
Version Added 6.1
Name Sundanese Consonant Sign Pasangan Wa
Block Sundanese
General Category Nonspacing Mark
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Nonspacing Mark

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᮭ
HTML Hex Encoding ᮭ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xAE 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1BAD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001BAD
C/C++/Java Escape \u1bad

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Combining Mark
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Sundanese
Script Extensions Sundanese
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Subjoined
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend