U+1BDC "ᯜ" Batak Letter Simalungun Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯜ
U+1BDC "ᯜ" Batak Letter Simalungun Ya is a specific glyph used in the Batak script, an indigenous writing system of Sumatra, Indonesia, that represents the sound "ya" in the Simalungun dialect. This character belongs to the Batak block of Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and digitalize the traditional script for modern computing. The letter "Ya" is a consonant in the Batak abugida, where each base consonant carries an inherent vowel sound that can be modified with diacritical marks. Its inclusion in Unicode supports cultural heritage and linguistic studies, allowing for accurate digital representation of Simalungun texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BDC |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Simalungun Ya |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BDC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BDC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bdc |