U+1BD9 "ᯙ" Batak Letter Simalungun Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BD9 "ᯙ" Batak Letter Simalungun Sa is a symbol used in the Batak script, an abugida historically employed to write various Batak languages of North Sumatra, Indonesia. This specific letter represents the consonant "Sa" in the Simalungun dialect, a variant of the Batak script. It is part of the Unicode Batak block, encoded to support digital preservation and communication of this indigenous writing system, which is currently experiencing revitalization efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BD9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Simalungun Sa |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BD9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BD9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bd9 |