U+1BD2 "ᯒ" Batak Letter Ra Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯒ
U+1BD2 "ᯒ" Batak Letter Ra is a glyph from the Unicode Standard representing a consonant in the Batak script, an abugida historically used to write the Batak languages of North Sumatra, Indonesia. This specific letter corresponds to the sound "ra" or the consonant "r" with an inherent vowel "a" in traditional Batak orthography. The character is part of the Batak block (U+1BC0 to U+1BFF) in Unicode version 6.0, released in 2010, and is used primarily in cultural and linguistic contexts to preserve and digitally represent ancient manuscripts, religious texts, and modern writings of the Batak Toba, Karo, Dairi, and related communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BD2 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Ra |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯒ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯒ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x92 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BD2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BD2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bd2 |