U+1BD0 "ᯐ" Batak Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BD0 "ᯐ" Batak Letter Ja is a grapheme in the Batak script, an abugida historically used across the Batak ethnic groups of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ja" and functions as a syllabic letter in the writing system, where inherent vowels can be modified by diacritical marks. It belongs to the Batak block of Unicode, which was introduced to preserve and digitize this traditional script that was historically inscribed on bark, bamboo, and other local materials.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BD0 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Ja |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BD0 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BD0 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bd0 |