U+1078 "ၸ" Myanmar Letter Shan Ca Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ၸ
U+1078 "ၸ" Myanmar Letter Shan Ca is a specific glyph used in the Shan language, which belongs to the Tai–Kadai language family and is primarily spoken by the Shan people in Myanmar and neighboring regions. This character represents the initial consonant sound "ca," similar to the "ch" in the English word "chat," and is part of the Myanmar script block within Unicode, which was expanded to include additional characters for writing minority languages like Shan. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text and documents can accurately represent this distinct phonetic element, facilitating communication and preservation of the Shan language in electronic form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1078 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Shan Ca |
| Block | Myanmar |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ၸ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ၸ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0x81 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1078 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001078 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1078 |