U+A4D2 "ꓒ" Lisu Letter Pha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A4D2 "ꓒ" Lisu Letter Pha is part of the Lisu script, also known as the Fraser alphabet, which was designed in the early 20th century by missionary James O. Fraser to transcribe the Lisu language spoken primarily in southwestern China, Myanmar, and Thailand. This specific character represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound /pʰ/, analogous to the English "p" sound in words like "pat" but with a stronger burst of air. It is one of the core consonants in the Lisu alphabet, which uses a unique set of uppercase and lowercase letterforms inspired by Latin capitals but modified to fit the tonal and phonetic needs of the language. The inclusion of this character in Unicode ensures its digital preservation and global accessibility for writing and reading Lisu texts.

General Properties

Code Point U+A4D2
Version Added 5.2
Name Lisu Letter Pha
Block Lisu
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꓒ
HTML Hex Encoding ꓒ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0x93 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA4D2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A4D2
C/C++/Java Escape \ua4d2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Lisu
Script Extensions Lisu
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