U+11A70 "ð‘©°" Soyombo Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+11A70 "ð‘©°" Soyombo Letter Pa is a symbol from the Soyombo script, an abugida historically used for writing the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit languages within Buddhist contexts. This specific character represents the consonant sound "pa" and is part of a larger alphanumeric system invented in the 17th century by the Mongolian monk and scholar Zanabazar. The Soyombo script is renowned for its elaborate, calligraphic forms, with the letter Pa featuring a distinctive vertical stem and ornate flourishes that reflect its ceremonial use, particularly in religious and royal inscriptions. Today, the character is encoded in the Unicode Standard to support digital preservation and study of this unique and historic writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11A70 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Soyombo Letter Pa |
| Block | Soyombo |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑩰 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑩰 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xA9 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD806 0xDE70 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011A70 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud806\ude70 |