U+1BC1 "ᯁ" Batak Letter Simalungun A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯁ
U+1BC1 "ᯁ" Batak Letter Simalungun A is a specific glyph used in the Batak script to represent the vowel sound "a" in the Simalungun language, one of the Batak languages spoken in North Sumatra, Indonesia. This character is part of the Batak block of the Unicode standard, which was included to support the digital preservation and representation of the Batak writing system. Visually, it appears as a distinctive angular symbol typical of the Batak script, which is traditionally written left to right and used for ceremonial, historical, and increasingly modern digital communication within the Simalungun community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC1 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Simalungun A |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BC1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BC1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bc1 |