U+105B "ၛ" Myanmar Letter Mon Jha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter