U+A4ED "ꓭ" Lisu Letter Gha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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