U+A80D "ꠍ" Syloti Nagri Letter Cho Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠍ
U+A80D "ꠍ" Syloti Nagri Letter Cho is part of the Syloti Nagri script, historically used to write the Sylheti language primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India. This specific character represents the voiceless alveolar affricate sound /tʃ/ similar to the English "ch" in "chop", and it functions as a consonant in the Syloti Nagri alphabet. The inclusion of this character in the Unicode Standard helps preserve and digitally support the Sylheti language, which has a rich literary and cultural heritage but has often faced marginalization in favor of dominant scripts like Bengali.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A80D |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Letter Cho |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠍ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠍ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA80D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A80D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua80d |