U+1BCF "ᯏ" Batak Letter Simalungun Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BCF "ᯏ" Batak Letter Simalungun Ga is a specific glyph from the Batak script, an indigenous writing system used historically for several Batak languages of Sumatra, Indonesia. This particular letter represents the sound "ga" in the Simalungun dialect, one of the regional variants of the Batak script, and it is part of the Unicode block for Batak, encoded to preserve and support digital representation of this endangered script. The character is typically written with a distinctive curved shape that distinguishes it from other Batak consonants, and its inclusion in Unicode helps facilitate modern typography, linguistic study, and cultural heritage documentation for the Batak people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BCF |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Simalungun Ga |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BCF |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BCF |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bcf |