U+1000 "က" Myanmar Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
က
U+1000 "က" Myanmar Letter Ka is the first letter of the Myanmar (Burmese) script, representing the unaspirated, voiceless velar stop consonant sound /k/, similar to the "k" in the English word "skate." It serves as a fundamental building block in the writing system used for the Burmese language and several other minority languages in Myanmar, and its glyph appears as a circular head with a curved tail, often taught to learners as the starting point for mastering the script's intricate circular and curved forms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1000 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Ka |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | က |
| HTML Hex Encoding | က |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1000 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001000 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1000 |