U+1BDD "ᯝ" Batak Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯝ
U+1BDD "ᯝ" Batak Letter Nga is a symbol used in the Batak script, an abugida historically employed to write the Batak languages of North Sumatra, Indonesia. It represents the velar nasal sound /ŋ/, similar to the 'ng' in the English word "sing". This character is part of the Unicode standard's Batak block, which was introduced to preserve and digitally represent this indigenous writing system for modern communication and cultural documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BDD |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter Nga |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯝ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯝ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0x9D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BDD |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BDD |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bdd |