U+A819 "ꠙ" Syloti Nagri Letter Po Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꠙ
U+A819 "ꠙ" Syloti Nagri Letter Po is a consonant used in the Syloti Nagri script, which is historically employed to write the Sylheti language, primarily spoken in the Sylhet region of Bangladesh and parts of northeastern India. This letter represents the voiceless bilabial plosive sound /p/ and is part of the script's basic consonant inventory, which was historically used for religious and secular texts before the widespread adoption of the Bengali script. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for digital preservation and correct rendering of Sylheti texts, supporting cultural and linguistic heritage efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A819 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Syloti Nagri Letter Po |
| Block | Syloti Nagri |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꠙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꠙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA0 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA819 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A819 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua819 |