U+1BD7 "ᯗ" Batak Letter Northern Ta Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1BD7 "ᯗ" Batak Letter Northern Ta is a glyph from the Unicode standard representing a consonant used in the Batak script, specifically for writing the Batak languages spoken in North Sumatra, Indonesia. This character denotes the sound “ta” and belongs to the “northern” variant of the script, which differs from the southern version in certain letter shapes. It is part of the Batak block in Unicode, encoded to support the digital preservation and representation of this traditional writing system, which is historically used for religious and literary texts on bark, bamboo, and paper.

General Properties

Code Point U+1BD7
Version Added 6.0
Name Batak Letter Northern Ta
Block Batak
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᯗ
HTML Hex Encoding ᯗ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xAF 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1BD7
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001BD7
C/C++/Java Escape \u1bd7

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara Start
Script Batak
Script Extensions Batak
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter