U+16A57 "𖩗" Mro Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖩗
U+16A57 "𖩗" Mro Letter Wa is a specific glyph from the Mro script, which was historically used to write the Mro language spoken by the Mro community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh and parts of Myanmar. This character represents the sound /wa/ and is part of the Mro alphabet, a script that was originally developed in the 19th century by a Mro elder and later revised for modern use. As a member of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane in Unicode, this letter enables the digital preservation and written communication of the Mro language, contributing to the linguistic diversity and cultural heritage of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16A57 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Mro Letter Wa |
| Block | Mro |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖩗 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖩗 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDE57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016A57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\ude57 |