U+0E86 "ຆ" Lao Letter Pali Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ຆ
U+0E86 "ຆ" Lao Letter Pali Gha is a script character used in the Lao alphabet specifically to represent the voiced aspirated velar consonant sound /ɡʰ/ for transcribing Pali and Sanskrit texts, as these languages include sounds not native to standard Lao. It is part of the Lao block in Unicode and corresponds to the Brahmic-derived letter derived from the Khmer script, but it is rarely used in everyday Lao writing and appears primarily in religious, scholarly, or historical contexts where Pali terminology must be accurately represented.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E86 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Lao Letter Pali Gha |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ຆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ຆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E86 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E86 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e86 |