U+1897 "ᢗ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ah Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1897 "ᢗ" Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ah is a specialized glyph from the Mongolian script's Ali Gali extension, used historically to transliterate foreign sounds, particularly from Tibetan and Sanskrit texts. This specific character represents a long "a" vowel sound, distinguished from its short counterpart by a diacritical mark, and was employed in religious and scholarly writings to accurately render non-Mongolian phonetics. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve the textual integrity of classical Mongolian documents and Buddhist translations, allowing modern digital systems to correctly display and process this nuanced orthographic detail.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1897
Name
Mongolian Letter Ali Gali Ah
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᢗ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᢗ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xA2 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1897
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001897
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1897
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Mongolian