U+1BAF "ᮯ" Sundanese Letter Sya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᮯ
U+1BAF "ᮯ" Sundanese Letter Sya is a specific glyph in the Sundanese script, used to represent the sound "sya" in the Sundanese language of Indonesia. This character is part of the Sundanese Unicode block, which was added to support the modern and traditional writing of the language, and it serves as a distinct letter for a consonant sound that is not native to the core Sundanese phonology but is used for loanwords, particularly from Arabic. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the digital preservation and accurate representation of Sundanese text in computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BAF |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Sundanese Letter Sya |
| Block | Sundanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᮯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᮯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAE 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BAF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BAF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1baf |