U+A9A7 "ꦧ" Javanese Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꦧ
U+A9A7 "ꦧ" Javanese Letter Ba is a glyph used in the Javanese script, representing the sound /b/ as in the English word "bat." As a consonant in the traditional Brahmic-derived abugida of the Javanese language, it serves as the base letter for the syllable "ba" and can be modified with diacritics to indicate other vowel sounds. This character is part of the Javanese Unicode block, which was added to support the digital preservation and modern use of the Javanese script, historically prominent in inscriptions and literature from the island of Java, Indonesia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9A7 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Javanese Letter Ba |
| Block | Javanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꦧ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꦧ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA6 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9A7 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9A7 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9a7 |