U+A845 "ꡅ" Phags-Pa Letter Cha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A845 "ꡅ" Phags-Pa Letter Cha is a specific glyph from the Phags-pa script, an alphasyllabary created in the 13th century during the Yuan dynasty of China to write multiple languages, including Mongolian, Chinese, and Sanskrit. This character represents the sound "cha" and belongs to the Phags-pa block of the Unicode Standard, which was added to enable digital representation and exchange of this historic script. The Phags-pa script itself was devised by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa at the command of Kublai Khan and is notable for its vertical writing direction and distinct, angular letterforms derived from Tibetan writing, with U+A845 being one of its consonant letters used to transliterate foreign terms and native words alike.

General Properties

Code Point U+A845
Version Added 5.0
Name Phags-Pa Letter Cha
Block Phags-pa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꡅ
HTML Hex Encoding ꡅ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA1 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA845
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A845
C/C++/Java Escape \ua845

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Phags Pa
Script Extensions Phags Pa
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
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