U+A84C "ꡌ" Phags-Pa Letter Pa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A84C "ꡌ" Phags-Pa Letter Pa is a specific glyph from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk and state preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongol Yuan Dynasty to write multiple languages, including Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan. This character represents the consonant sound "p" and is classified as a letter within the Phags-pa block of the Unicode Standard. Its design is typically square and angular, reflecting the script's distinctive shape, which was intended to be a unified writing system for the vast Mongol Empire. Despite its historical significance, the Phags-pa script fell out of common use after the Yuan Dynasty, so this letter is now primarily encountered in scholarly texts, historical inscriptions, and digital fonts for linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point U+A84C
Version Added 5.0
Name Phags-Pa Letter Pa
Block Phags-pa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꡌ
HTML Hex Encoding ꡌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA1 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA84C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A84C
C/C++/Java Escape \ua84c

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