U+1018 "ဘ" Myanmar Letter Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ဘ
U+1018 "ဘ" Myanmar Letter Bha is the 24th consonant in the Myanmar script, representing the aspirated bilabial stop sound /bʰa/ in the Burmese language, where it is commonly used in words such as "ဘယ်" (bhai, meaning "which") and "ဘုရား" (hpaya, meaning "pagoda" or "lord"). This character also functions as the first letter in the word for the number "100" (ဘဲ, bye) and holds a distinct shape that, like all Myanmar consonants, features a circular or open form with a characteristic horizontal stroke when written in standard typography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1018 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Bha |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ဘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ဘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1018 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001018 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1018 |