What ꦧ means
It represents the consonant b with an inherent a vowel.
The Javanese script, also called carakan or hanacaraka, developed from Kawi, an older script, in the 14th–15th centuries. It served Javanese, Sanskrit, Kawi, Sundanese, and Sasak texts, including religious, legal, heroic, moral, and historical works. The oldest dated Old Javanese inscription is from 804 CE. As of 2026, Latin is the everyday default for Javanese; Javanese script is taught and appears on signs.
Why does ꦧ look different in a word?
Pangkon suppresses the built-in vowel.
Pangkon is a mark placed after ꦧ to suppress its vowel, letting another consonant follow. Some fonts join the resulting letters; others show them separately.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ꦧ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find ꦧ
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- Javanese script · Javanese alphabet · carakan · hanacaraka · pangkon · pasangan
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- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
ꦧ\A9A7Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.