U+1E2CA "ðž‹Š" Wancho Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ðž‹Š
U+1E2CA "ðž‹Š" Wancho Letter Pa is a component of the Wancho script, which was specifically designed for the Wancho language spoken by the Wancho people in the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. This character represents the consonant sound "pa" and was officially added to the Unicode Standard in version 12.0, released in March 2019, as part of a larger block dedicated to preserving and enabling digital communication for this indigenous script. The Wancho script itself is an alphabetic writing system that was developed in the 1950s by Banwang Losu and later refined, with this letter playing a role in recording and transmitting the language's oral traditions, literature, and everyday communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1E2CA |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Wancho Letter Pa |
| Block | Wancho |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𞋊 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𞋊 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9E 0x8B 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD838 0xDECA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001E2CA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud838\udeca |