U+1BCD "ᯍ" Batak Letter Pakpak Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯍ
U+1BCD "ᯍ" Batak Letter Pakpak Wa is a character from the Batak script used to represent a sound in the Pakpak dialect, which is one of the variants of the Batak language spoken in North Sumatra, Indonesia. This script, traditionally used for writing on bark, bamboo, or other materials, is part of a larger system of indigenous writing that has been preserved for ceremonial, literary, and historical texts. The character itself is a syllabic letter, specifically associated with the consonant "w" sound modified by an inherent vowel "a".
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BCD |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Pakpak Wa |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BCD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BCD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bcd |