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   September 2024
  - Unicode 15.0 update.




MAKASAR LETTER RA character


Name:
MAKASAR LETTER RA
Hex Number:
U+11EED
Decimal Number:
73453
HTML Entity (Dec):
𑻭
HTML Entity (Hex):
𑻭
Alternate Name:

Category:
Lo (Letter, Other)
Bidi Class:
L (Left-to-Right)
Mirrored:
N
Combining Class:
0
Unicode Block:
Makasar
Plane:
1
Plane Code:
SMP
Plane Description:
Supplementary Multilingual Plane
Plane Range:
10000-1FFFF
Character Preview:
𑻭












MAKASAR LETTER RA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of MAKASAR LETTER RA is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Makasar block. The Makasar script was historically used on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, by the Makassarese people. It is part of the broader family of Brahmic scripts that spread across South and Southeast Asia, influenced by the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism. The script was used primarily for writing Old Makassarese and religious texts until it was replaced by the Latin alphabet during the Dutch colonial period. The Unicode block for Makasar helps ensure that this script, like many others in Indonesia, is preserved for future generations. Scholars, cultural activists, and linguists now have the tools to digitally encode and study Makasar texts, which are important for understanding the region’s rich history, including its pre-Islamic and Islamic periods..





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