U+1006 "ဆ" Myanmar Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1006 "ဆ" Myanmar Letter Cha is the sixth letter of the Myanmar abugida, representing the aspirated palatal affricate sound /tʃʰa/. It is commonly used in the Burmese language to write words such as "ဆရာ" (saya meaning teacher) and serves as a fundamental component in the Myanmar script, which is written from left to right. In the Unicode standard, it belongs to the Myanmar block and is encoded for digital text representation across various devices and platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1006
Version Added 3.0
Name Myanmar Letter Cha
Block Myanmar
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ဆ
HTML Hex Encoding ဆ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x80 0x86
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1006
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001006
C/C++/Java Escape \u1006

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter