U+1874 "ᡴ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1874 "ᡴ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Ka is a specific glyph used in the script for the Manchu language, which was the official language of the Qing dynasty in China and belongs to the family of Mongolian-derived alphabets. This character represents the consonant sound /k/ or /q/, depending on its position in a word, and is written with a distinctive curved form that differs from its Mongolian equivalent due to phonetic variation. It appears in historical texts, especially those from the Manchu archives, and is encoded in the Unicode standard to support digital preservation and scholarly work on Manchu language and literature, enabling accurate rendering in modern computing systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1874 |
| Version Added | 3.0 |
| Name | Mongolian Letter Manchu Ka |
| Block | Mongolian |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᡴ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᡴ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA1 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1874 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001874 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1874 |