U+A4D9 "ꓙ" Lisu Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓙ
U+A4D9 "ꓙ" Lisu Letter Ja is a symbol from the Lisu alphabet, which was created in the early 20th century by the missionary James O. Fraser for writing the Lisu language, spoken by over a million people in southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This specific letter represents the voiced palato-alveolar affricate sound /dʒ/, similar to the "j" in English "judge", and it forms part of the standardized Fraser script block encoded in Unicode.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4D9 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter Ja |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4D9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4D9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4d9 |