U+A846 "ꡆ" Phags-Pa Letter Ja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡆ
U+A846 "ꡆ" Phags-Pa Letter Ja is a letter from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan to uniformly transcribe multiple languages including Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan. This specific character represents the sound "ja" and belongs to the Phags-pa block within the Unicode standard, which was added to support historical and linguistic research into the script's use for official documents, religious texts, and transcriptions during the Yuan dynasty. As a rarely used but historically significant glyph, its encoding helps preserve the writing system's role in facilitating communication across diverse cultures in medieval East Asia.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A846 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Ja |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA846 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A846 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua846 |