U+1BE4 "ᯤ" Batak Letter I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯤ
U+1BE4 "ᯤ" Batak Letter I is a character from the Batak script, which is an indigenous writing system used historically for several Batak languages in the North Sumatra region of Indonesia. Representing the vowel sound /i/, it belongs to the Unicode block Batak, encoded as part of version 6.0 of the standard to preserve this cultural heritage for digital communication. This character is a single letter in the Batak script, distinct from other vowel markers, and is used in writing to denote the short or long i sound depending on context, often appearing in conjunction with consonant syllables within traditional texts and modern documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BE4 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter I |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BE4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BE4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1be4 |