U+11A71 "ð‘©±" Soyombo Letter Pha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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U+11A71 "ð‘©±" Soyombo Letter Pha is a component of the Soyombo script, a historical abugida created in the late 17th century by the Mongolian Buddhist monk and scholar Zanabazar. This script was primarily designed for writing Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit, particularly for religious and scholarly texts, and each syllable block in Soyombo is composed by combining a consonant letter like Pha with an inherent vowel or other diacritical vowel marks. The letter Pha represents the aspirated "p" sound and is visually distinguished by its ornate, curly strokes that reflect the script's elegant, decorative nature. Although the Soyombo script is no longer in widespread daily use, it holds cultural and historical significance for Mongolian Buddhism and is preserved in modern digital standards like Unicode to ensure its representation and study.

General Properties

Code Point U+11A71
Version Added 10.0
Name Soyombo Letter Pha
Block Soyombo
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 𑩱
HTML Hex Encoding 𑩱
UTF-8 Encoding 0xF0 0x91 0xA9 0xB1
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD806 0xDE71
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00011A71
C/C++/Java Escape \ud806\ude71

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Soyombo
Script Extensions Soyombo
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter