U+103E "ှ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+103E "ှ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ha is a combining diacritical mark used in the Myanmar (Burmese) script to modify a consonant by adding a medial "ha" sound, typically representing a spirantized or breathy articulation in syllables. This character is placed after the base consonant and before any vowel or tone marks, functioning as a medial consonant sign that changes the pronunciation, such as in words like "မှ" (hma) or "ငှ" (nga). It is part of the Myanmar script's complex orthographic system, where it appears as a subscripted or attached symbol that visually resembles a small hook or curl, distinct from the standalone letter ha.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+103E |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Consonant Sign Medial Ha |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ှ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ှ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x80 0xBE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x103E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000103E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u103e |