U+1BC3 "ᯃ" Batak Letter Simalungun Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯃ
U+1BC3 "ᯃ" Batak Letter Simalungun Ha is a specific symbol within the Batak script block, representing the sound "ha" as used in the Simalungun language, a variant of the Batak languages spoken in North Sumatra, Indonesia. This character is part of a larger system of writing historically derived from Brahmi scripts, and it functions as a consonant that can be modified with diacritical marks to indicate different vowel sounds. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally represent the Simalungun dialect, supporting linguistic documentation and modern communication for Batak communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC3 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Simalungun Ha |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bc3 |