U+1C62 "ᱢ" Ol Chiki Letter Aam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1C62 "ᱢ" Ol Chiki Letter Aam is a specific glyph used in the Ol Chiki script, which was created in the early 20th century by Pandit Raghunath Murmu for writing the Santali language spoken primarily in eastern India. This character represents the consonant sound "am" and plays a fundamental role in the script's syllabic writing system, which is distinct from the Devanagari and Bengali scripts that neighboring languages often use. As part of the Ol Chiki alphabet, it contributes to preserving and promoting the cultural and linguistic identity of the Santal people through written communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1C62 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Ol Chiki Letter Aam |
| Block | Ol Chiki |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᱢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᱢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xB1 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1C62 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001C62 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1c62 |