U+A850 "ꡐ" Phags-Pa Letter Tsa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡐ
U+A850 "ꡐ" Phags-Pa Letter Tsa is a specific grapheme from the Phags-pa script, a historical alphabet devised in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty for writing Mongolian, Tibetan, Chinese, and other languages. This character represents the sound "tsa" (an aspirated affricate consonant) and was used primarily in official imperial edicts and linguistic transcriptions. The Phags-pa script is notable for its vertical writing direction and its role in unifying diverse languages under a single writing system, though it fell into disuse after the Yuan period. Today, "ꡐ" is preserved in the Unicode standard to support scholarly work and digital preservation of medieval texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A850 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Tsa |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡐ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡐ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x90 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA850 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A850 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua850 |