U+A84A "ꡊ" Phags-Pa Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡊ
U+A84A "ꡊ" Phags-Pa Letter Da is a glyph representing a consonant from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet invented by the Tibetan monk and state preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa in the 13th century for the Yuan dynasty to write Mongolian, Chinese, and other languages. This specific letter, "Da," corresponds to the sound /d/ and was used in official imperial inscriptions, seals, and religious texts as part of a system that combined features of Tibetan and Indian scripts with a unique, square-shaped aesthetic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A84A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Da |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA84A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A84A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua84a |