U+A9AD "ꦭ" Javanese Letter La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A9AD "ꦭ" Javanese Letter La is a glyph representing the consonant sound "la" in the Javanese script, an abugida used to write the Javanese language primarily on the island of Java, Indonesia. This letter belongs to the Javanese Unicode block and is part of a rich, traditional writing system derived from the Kawi script, which itself has roots in the Brahmic scripts of ancient India. In Javanese orthography, "La" serves as a basic consonant character that can be modified with diacritical marks to represent different vowel sounds or to serve as a final consonant in syllable structures. Its appearance is distinctively curved and angular, reflecting the aesthetic conventions of Javanese calligraphy, and it remains culturally significant for preserving historical literature, religious texts, and modern Javanese writing.

General Properties

Code Point U+A9AD
Version Added 5.2
Name Javanese Letter La
Block Javanese
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꦭ
HTML Hex Encoding ꦭ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA6 0xAD
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA9AD
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A9AD
C/C++/Java Escape \ua9ad

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Aksara
Script Javanese
Script Extensions Javanese
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter