U+1918 "ᤘ" Limbu Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
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U+1918 "ᤘ" Limbu Letter Wa is a character from the Limbu script, an abugida used primarily by the Limbu people of Nepal, Bhutan, and Sikkim to write the Limbu language, and it represents the consonant sound "wa." This specific letter, identified by the name "Limbu Letter Wa," is encoded in the Limbu block of the Unicode Standard, which was introduced to preserve and facilitate digital communication of this endangered language. It appears as a distinctive curved glyph that combines with vowel diacritics to form syllables, playing a crucial role in accurately transcribing the native phonetics of Limbu, particularly in linguistic documentation and modern text processing.
General Properties
Code Point
U+1918
Name
Limbu Letter Wa
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ᤘ
HTML Hex Encoding
ᤘ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xE1 0xA4 0x98
UTF-16 Encoding
0x1918
UTF-32 Encoding
0x00001918
C/C++/Java Escape
\u1918
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Limbu