U+1877 "ᡷ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Zha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1877 "ᡷ" Mongolian Letter Manchu Zha is a glyph used in the Mongolian script to represent a specific consonant sound in the Manchu language, which was historically written with a modified version of the traditional Mongolian alphabet. This character corresponds to a sound similar to the "j" in English "jazz" with a slight retroflexion, and it appears in transliterations of Manchu texts, particularly in historical documents from the Qing dynasty. It is part of the Unicode Mongolian block, which supports the writing systems of Mongolian, Manchu, and other related languages, and it is displayed as a distinct letter when the correct font and rendering software are used, though it may appear as a placeholder or square in systems without proper support.

General Properties

Code Point U+1877
Version Added 3.0
Name Mongolian Letter Manchu Zha
Block Mongolian
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᡷ
HTML Hex Encoding ᡷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA1 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1877
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001877
C/C++/Java Escape \u1877

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