U+16A4B "ð–©‹" Mro Letter Chu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+16A4B "ð–©‹" Mro Letter Chu is a character from the Mro script, which is used to write the Mro language spoken primarily in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and parts of Myanmar. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "ch" and is part of an alphabet that was likely developed in the 1980s by a Mro community member named Menley Mro, with the script being added to the Unicode Standard in 2014 as part of version 7.0. The Mro script is an abugida, meaning that vowels are indicated through diacritical marks attached to consonant letters like "Chu." The character holds cultural significance for the Mro people, as it helps preserve and promote their distinct linguistic heritage in a region where many minority languages face pressure from dominant languages like Bengali and Burmese.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
𖩋 |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
𖩋 |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xF0 0x96 0xA9 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xD81A 0xDE4B |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x00016A4B |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ud81a\ude4b |
Unicode Properties