U+0EA8 "ຨ" Lao Letter Sanskrit Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ຨ
U+0EA8 "ຨ" Lao Letter Sanskrit Sha is a relatively rare character used in the Lao script primarily for the transcription of Sanskrit and Pali texts, where it represents the voiceless palato-alveolar sibilant sound "sha." It is distinguished from the more common Lao letter for "sa" (ສ) by its distinct shape and its inclusion as part of the extended Lao block, which accommodates sounds borrowed from classical Indian languages. This character is not typically used in modern everyday Lao writing but appears in religious, historical, or scholarly works that require faithful representation of original Sanskrit or Pali terms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0EA8 |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Lao Letter Sanskrit Sha |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ຨ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ຨ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0xA8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0EA8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000EA8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ea8 |