U+1BE9 "ᯩ" Batak Vowel Sign Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BE9 "ᯩ" Batak Vowel Sign Ee is a combining mark used in the Batak script, an indigenous writing system of the Batak people in North Sumatra, Indonesia, to represent the vowel sound /e/ or /ɛ/ (often transcribed as "ee" to indicate a long e sound). This diacritic sign is placed after a consonant character to modify its inherent vowel, functioning as an attached symbol rather than an independent letter. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the digital preservation and accurate representation of Batak texts, supporting efforts to maintain and revitalize the language and script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BE9 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Vowel Sign Ee |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1be9 |