U+16AA5 "𖪥" Tangsa Letter Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖪥
U+16AA5 "𖪥" Tangsa Letter Ya is a script character used in the Tangsa writing system, which was developed for the Tangsa language spoken by communities in northeast India and Myanmar. This letter represents the consonant sound "ya" and is part of a modern alphabet designed to preserve and promote the linguistic heritage of the Tangsa people. It belongs to the Tangsa block of the Unicode Standard, which was introduced in version 14.0 (released in 2021) to support the digital representation of this previously underrepresented script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AA5 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tangsa Letter Ya |
| Block | Tangsa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖪥 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖪥 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAA 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udea5 |