U+A4ED "ꓭ" Lisu Letter Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꓭ
U+A4ED "ꓭ" Lisu Letter Gha is part of the Lisu script, also known as the Fraser alphabet, which was created in the early 20th century to write the Lisu language spoken primarily in southwestern China, Myanmar, Thailand, and India. This specific letter represents a voiced velar fricative or aspirated sound, akin to the "gh" in English loanwords, and is used in the orthography to accurately transcribe the phonetic nuances of Lisu. The character appears in the Unicode Standard's Lisu block, with a distinctive shape featuring a curved upper stroke and a central vertical line, reflecting the script's unique visual style based on uppercase Roman letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A4ED |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Lisu Letter Gha |
| Block | Lisu |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꓭ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꓭ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0x93 0xAD |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA4ED |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A4ED |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua4ed |