U+A853 "ꡓ" Phags-Pa Letter Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡓ
U+A853 "ꡓ" Phags-Pa Letter Wa is a glyph from the Phags-Pa script, a historical alphabet created in the 13th century under the Mongol Yuan dynasty by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa to uniformly write languages such as Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. This specific character represents the consonant "wa" and belongs to a block within the Unicode standard that preserves this now largely obsolete script, which was used primarily for official inscriptions and documents during the Yuan period.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A853 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Wa |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA853 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A853 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua853 |