U+11716 "𑜖" Ahom Letter Alternate Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑜖
U+11716 "𑜖" Ahom Letter Alternate Ga is a part of the Ahom script block, used historically to write the Ahom language of northeast India and representing an alternative form of the consonant "Ga." This character was encoded in Unicode version 8.0 in 2015, reflecting efforts to digitally preserve and support the script, which was used primarily for manuscripts and inscriptions of the Ahom kingdom. The "Alternate Ga" serves as a stylistic or orthographic variant within the script, offering flexibility in textual representation for scholars and language revitalization efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11716 |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Ahom Letter Alternate Ga |
| Block | Ahom |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑜖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑜖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x9C 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDF16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011716 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udf16 |