U+1BD8 "ᯘ" Batak Letter Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BD8 "ᯘ" Batak Letter Sa is a glyph used in the Batak script, an abugida native to the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. This letter represents the syllable "sa" and is part of the system historically employed for writing various Batak language dialects, particularly in traditional religious, legal, and literary manuscripts. The script is written from left to right and includes inherent vowel sounds, with diacritics modifying the vowel of a consonant character like Sa. Despite declining everyday use due to the adoption of the Latin alphabet, the Batak script and its characters, including U+1BD8, are preserved for cultural heritage, ceremonial purposes, and continued scholarly study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BD8 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Sa |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bd8 |