U+1BEA "ᯪ" Batak Vowel Sign I Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1BEA "ᯪ" Batak Vowel Sign I is a combining mark used in the Batak script, which is indigenous to the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. This character functions as a vowel sign that modifies a consonant by adding an "i" sound, altering the syllable's pronunciation without being an independent letter. Rendered as a diacritical mark attached to the base consonant, it is part of the larger Batak Unicode block, which supports the traditional writing systems for four Batak languages: Toba, Karo, Dairi, and Mandailing. The inclusion of U+1BEA in Unicode helps preserve and digitize this endangered script, enabling modern text processing and digital communication for Batak linguistic heritage.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1BEA |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Batak Vowel Sign I |
| Block | Batak |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᯪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᯪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAF 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1BEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001BEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1bea |