U+1BAD "ᮭ" Sundanese Consonant Sign Pasangan Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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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 |