U+1008 "ဈ" Myanmar Letter Jha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1008 "ဈ" Myanmar Letter Jha is a character from the Myanmar script used primarily for the Mon language and occasionally in Pali texts, representing a voiced palatal affricate sound similar to the English "j" in "jungle". It belongs to the Myanmar block of Unicode and is distinctively shaped with a curled top and a descending tail, differing slightly from the more common Myanmar letters. While not frequently used in standard Burmese, it plays a role in preserving historical linguistic traditions and in transliterating foreign words or religious terms within the region's writing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1008 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Jha |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ဈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ဈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1008 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001008 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1008 |