U+183B "ᠻ" Mongolian Letter Kha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+183B "ᠻ" Mongolian Letter Kha is used in the traditional Mongolian script to represent a voiceless uvular fricative sound, similar to the "kh" or "ch" in other languages, and is positioned as the 28th letter of the Mongolian alphabet. It is primarily employed in writing the Mongolian language, particularly in Inner Mongolia, where the traditional script remains in use. This character is part of the Unicode block for Mongolian, which was added to the standard to support the script's distinct cursive and vertical writing system, ensuring digital representation for historical and modern texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+183B
Version Added 3.0
Name Mongolian Letter Kha
Block Mongolian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᠻ
HTML Hex Encoding ᠻ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA0 0xBB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x183B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000183B
C/C++/Java Escape \u183b

Unicode Properties

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