U+A840 "ꡀ" Phags-Pa Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A840 "ꡀ" Phags-Pa Letter Ka is a glyph representing a consonant from the Phags-Pa script, a segmented alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk and state preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongol Yuan dynasty to unify the transcription of Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, and other languages of the empire. This specific character encodes the sound /k/ as in the English "kite" and is part of a block of 56 Phags-pa letters and signs added to Unicode standard version 5.0 in 2006 to support historical text digitalization. The Phags-Pa script is written vertically in columns from top to bottom and left to right, and its letters, including this "Ka," are derived from Tibetan script forms but feature a distinctive square, blocky aesthetic intended for imperial decrees and religious texts.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꡀ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꡀ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA1 0x80 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA840 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A840 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua840 |
Unicode Properties