U+1BC5 "ᯅ" Batak Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯅ
U+1BC5 "ᯅ" Batak Letter Ba is a glyph representing the sound “ba” in the Batak script, an indigenous abugida historically used to write several Batak languages of North Sumatra, Indonesia. This script is written from left to right and, like many abugidas, each consonant character carries an inherent vowel, typically a, which can be modified with diacritics for other vowel sounds. The character is part of the Batak Unicode block, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and revival of this endangered writing system, allowing modern communication and cultural documentation in Batak communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BC5 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Ba |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯅ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯅ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BC5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BC5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bc5 |