U+103B "ျ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+103B "ျ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ya is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar (Burmese) script to indicate the medial consonant "ya" within a syllable. It is positioned to the left of the base consonant character, and when combined, it modifies the pronunciation by adding a "y" glide sound, as in the consonant cluster "py" or "ky". This character is an essential component of the orthography for writing many Burmese words, particularly those of Pali or Sanskrit origin, and it must be encoded after the base consonant in the logical text order to ensure correct rendering in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ya |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ျ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ျ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0xBB |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x103B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000103B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u103b |