U+11A00 "𑨀" Zanabazar Square Letter A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑨀
U+11A00 "𑨀" Zanabazar Square Letter A is the first letter of the Zanabazar Square script, an abugida designed in the late 17th century by the Mongolian monk and scholar Zanabazar for writing Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Mongolian. This square, calligraphic script was created to transliterate Buddhist texts and religious chants, with each character representing a syllable or vowel sound. The Letter A specifically denotes the inherent vowel sound "a" and serves as a foundational glyph from which many other characters are formed through the addition of diacritical marks. As part of Unicode’s effort to preserve historical scripts, U+11A00 allows for the digital representation and study of this rare writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11A00 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Zanabazar Square Letter A |
| Block | Zanabazar Square |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑨀 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑨀 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA8 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDE00 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011A00 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\ude00 |