U+1E5D8 "ðž—˜" Ol Onal Letter Ab Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž—˜
U+1E5D8 "ðž—˜" Ol Onal Letter Ab is a character from the Ol Onal script, which was historically used in the Himalayan region to write the Limbu language, though it has largely been replaced by the Devanagari script in modern times. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ab" and is part of a larger set of letters designed to record the phonological nuances of Limbu, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken primarily in Nepal and parts of India. The inclusion of U+1E5D8 in the Unicode Standard helps preserve this script for digital communication, scholarly research, and cultural heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E5D8 |
| Version Added | 16.0 |
| Name | Ol Onal Letter Ab |
| Block | Ol Onal |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞗘 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞗘 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x97 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD839 0xDDD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E5D8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud839\uddd8 |