U+1BCC "ᯌ" Batak Letter Simalungun Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BCC "ᯌ" Batak Letter Simalungun Wa is a specific glyph used in the Batak script, which is an abugida traditionally employed to write several Batak languages of Sumatra, Indonesia. This character represents the consonant "wa" as it appears in the Simalungun dialect, one of the many regional variants of the Batak writing system. Part of the Unicode Batak block (U+1BC0 to U+1BFF), this letter encodes a syllable that may carry an inherent vowel, typically "a," unless modified by diacritical marks. The inclusion of this character in Unicode helps preserve and digitize the rich linguistic heritage of the Batak people, enabling accurate representation of their written texts in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BCC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Simalungun Wa |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BCC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BCC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bcc |