U+1060 "ၠ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Mon Medial La Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1060 "ၠ" Myanmar Consonant Sign Mon Medial La is a combining diacritical mark used in the Mon language, which is written with the Myanmar script. This character specifically serves as a medial consonant sign, indicating the presence of an "la" sound in the middle of a syllable cluster, modifying the pronunciation of the base consonant it follows. It is part of the Myanmar Extended-A block and is essential for accurately representing the phonological structure of Mon, distinguishing it from standard Burmese usage.

General Properties

Code Point U+1060
Version Added 5.1
Name Myanmar Consonant Sign Mon Medial La
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 0x81 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1060
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001060
C/C++/Java Escape \u1060

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Transparent
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Case Ignorable Yes
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Medial
Indic Positional Category Bottom
Indic Conjunct Break Extend
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Other Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Extend Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Extend
Word Break Extend
Sentence Break Extend