U+1007 "ဇ" Myanmar Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ဇ
U+1007 "ဇ" Myanmar Letter Ja is a character in the Myanmar script used primarily to represent the voiced palatal affricate sound /d͡ʑ/ in the Burmese language, though its exact phonetic value can vary slightly in other languages that utilize the script, such as Mon and Shan. This letter belongs to the category of voiced consonants and is typically the seventh consonant in the traditional Myanmar alphabet order. In its visual form, "ဇ" features a distinctive curled stroke on the left side with a horizontal base, making it a recognizable glyph in written Burmese texts ranging from classical literature to modern digital communications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1007 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Ja |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ဇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ဇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1007 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001007 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1007 |