U+A4E3 "ꓣ" Lisu Letter Zha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓣ
U+A4E3 "ꓣ" Lisu Letter Zha is a component of the Lisu alphabet, which was developed in the early 20th century to write the Lisu language, spoken by over a million people in southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This particular character represents the sound of a voiced retroflex affricate, similar to the "j" sound in English "judge" but with the tongue curled back. It is part of the Lisu Supplement block within Unicode, which was added to support the unique orthography of the Lisu script, ensuring that digital text can accurately preserve and represent this minority language in modern communication and documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4E3 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter Zha |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓣ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓣ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0xA3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4E3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4E3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4e3 |