Limbu letter ha

It marks Limbu’s h consonant at the start of a syllable.

In Sirijanga writing, an initial consonant carries a short open-o vowel by default; a dependent vowel sign changes that vowel. So ᤜ is a syllable-building letter, not a bare consonant on its own.

Limbu script history has several layers. Limbu tradition attributes an earlier form to King Sirijanga in the 9th century. A surviving alphabet book may date from around 1730 or earlier; the oldest known collected Limbu writings are from Darjeeling in the 1850s. A modern form took shape in Kalimpong in 1925, and the current form has been used in Nepal and India since the 1970s. The script’s revival supported writing of mundhum—Limbu sacred oral teachings and ritual knowledge—as well as literature and teaching; Limbu also appears beside Devanagari in bilingual publications.

How do I type ᤜ?

Choose a Limbu or Sirijanga Unicode input method.

Use a Limbu keyboard layout, a transliteration input method, or a Unicode picker. A font-based imitation may look similar, but it is not the same searchable text character.

If the letter appears as a box or blank, the app or font may lack Limbu coverage. That is a display problem, not a different reading.

Why does ᤜ look different?

Limbu writing has historical forms with different glyph shapes.

Unicode includes manuscript forms, early printed forms, and the current script; some glyph shapes differ. A scan or a font following another stage can therefore draw the letter differently. An outline change alone does not prove that the text contains a different letter.

Limbu writing belongs to the Brahmi-derived scripts of South Asia. The Limbu language is only distantly related to Lepcha, also called Rong, and Tibetan; script ancestry and language kinship are separate connections.