U+1077 "ၷ" Myanmar Letter Shan Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ၷ
U+1077 "ၷ" Myanmar Letter Shan Ga is a character in the Myanmar script block, specifically used for writing the Shan language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken in eastern Myanmar. This letter represents the voiced velar stop sound "ga," corresponding to the consonant /ɡ/ in phonetic transcription. It is part of the extended Myanmar alphabet designed for Shan orthography, which includes additional letters beyond standard Burmese to accommodate distinct Shan phonemes. The character is encoded in Unicode version 5.1, released in 2008, to support digital representation and processing of Shan text in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1077 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Shan Ga |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1077 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001077 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1077 |