U+105B "ၛ" Myanmar Letter Mon Jha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ၛ
U+105B "ၛ" Myanmar Letter Mon Jha is a specific grapheme used in the Mon language, which is written in the Myanmar script and spoken primarily in Myanmar and Thailand. This character represents a voiced palatal affricate or a similar sound, functioning as a distinct consonant in the Mon writing system, separate from the standard Burmese jha character, to accurately reflect historical and phonological differences in Mon orthography. It is part of the Unicode Standard's Myanmar block, encoding which was added to support the diverse linguistic needs of ethnic minority languages in the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+105B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Mon Jha |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x105B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000105B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u105b |