U+16AB4 "ð–ª´" Tangsa Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ð–ª´
U+16AB4 "ð–ª´" Tangsa Letter Sha is a character from the Tangsa script, which was added to the Unicode Standard in 2022 as part of version 15.0 to support the Tangsa language spoken by communities in northeastern India and Myanmar. This specific letter represents the sound "sha" and is used in the orthography developed for writing Tangsa, a Sino-Tibetan language with multiple dialects. Its encoding ensures that the Tangsa script can be digitally preserved and utilized for modern communication, education, and cultural documentation, aiding in the revitalization of the language amidst shrinking speaker populations.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16AB4 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Tangsa Letter Sha |
| Block | Tangsa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖪴 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖪴 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xAA 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDEB4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016AB4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udeb4 |