U+1076 "ၶ" Myanmar Letter Shan Kha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1076 "ၶ" Myanmar Letter Shan Kha is a character used in the Myanmar script to represent a specific consonant sound in the Shan language, which is spoken by the Shan people mainly in Myanmar. This character is part of the Unicode block for Myanmar Extended-A, which includes additional letters required for writing minority languages like Shan, S'gaw Karen, and others. The letter "ၶ" corresponds to an aspirated velar or glottal sound, and it differs from the standard Myanmar letter "ခ" by having a distinct visual form and phonetic value in Shan orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode supports accurate digital representation and preservation of the Shan language in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+1076
Version Added 5.1
Name Myanmar Letter Shan Kha
Block Myanmar
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ၶ
HTML Hex Encoding ၶ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0x81 0xB6
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1076
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001076
C/C++/Java Escape \u1076

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