U+1BDA "ᯚ" Batak Letter Mandailing Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BDA "ᯚ" Batak Letter Mandailing Sa is a glyph used in the Batak script, specifically representing the consonant 'sa' in the Mandailing dialect of the Batak language of North Sumatra, Indonesia. It belongs to the Unicode block for the Batak script, which was added to support the written form of various Batak languages. The letter is part of a rich cultural writing system historically inscribed on bamboo, bark, and stone, and it contributes to the preservation and digital representation of Mandailing linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BDA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Mandailing Sa |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BDA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BDA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bda |