U+A84E "ꡎ" Phags-Pa Letter Ba Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡎ
U+A84E "ꡎ" Phags-Pa Letter Ba is a component of the ’Phags-pa script, a historical writing system created by the Tibetan monk and statesman Drogön Chögyal Phagpa in the 13th century under the patronage of Kublai Khan to unify the written languages of the Mongol Yuan Empire. This character represents the phoneme /ba/ and was used in the transliteration of Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, and Sanskrit texts, reflecting the script's role as a phonetic bridge across diverse languages. The character itself consists of a distinctive angular stroke structure, typical of the ’Phags-pa alphabet, which was designed to write vertically in columns from top to bottom, a feature adopted from traditional Mongolian script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A84E |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Ba |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA84E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A84E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua84e |