U+11709 "𑜉" Ahom Letter Ma Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑜉
U+11709 "𑜉" Ahom Letter Ma is a glyph from the Ahom script, a Brahmic writing system historically used to write the Ahom language, an extinct Tai language once spoken in the Assam region of northeastern India. This character represents the sound "ma" and is part of a script that was primarily employed for recording chronicles, religious texts, and historical manuscripts of the Ahom kingdom, which flourished from the 13th to the 19th century. Today, efforts are underway to revive the Ahom script and language through scholarly research and Unicode standardization, ensuring that this letter, like others in the block, remains accessible for digital preservation and linguistic study.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11709 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Ahom Letter Ma |
| Block | Ahom |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑜉 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑜉 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x9C 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDF09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011709 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udf09 |