U+A842 "ꡂ" Phags-Pa Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡂ
U+A842 "ꡂ" Phags-Pa Letter Ga is a script character from the Phags-pa alphabet, an historical writing system created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Yuan dynasty to uniformly transcribe languages such as Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "ga" and is notable for its distinctive, angular glyph design, which reflects the rectangular, vertically oriented form of the Phags-pa script. As part of the Unicode standard, it enables digital representation and preservation of texts written in this extinct script, which was used primarily for imperial inscriptions, edicts, and religious documents.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A842 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Ga |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA842 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A842 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua842 |