U+1BE5 "ᯥ" Batak Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᯥ
U+1BE5 "ᯥ" Batak Letter U is a symbol from the Batak script, an abugida historically used to write several Batak languages of North Sumatra, Indonesia. This specific character represents the vowel sound /u/ and is part of the Unicode block for Batak script, encoded in 2010 with version 6.0. It appears as a distinctive curvilinear glyph that differs from Latin letter U in shape, reflecting the unique orthographic traditions of the Batak people. While primarily used for modern digital representation of the Batak script, it also serves scholars and communities working to preserve and revive this endangered writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BE5 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Letter U |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BE5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BE5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1be5 |