U+A85A "ꡚ" Phags-Pa Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡚ
U+A85A "ꡚ" Phags-Pa Letter Sha is a specific glyph from the Phags-Pa script, a writing system created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk and state preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongol Yuan dynasty to write Chinese, Mongolian, Sanskrit, and other languages of the empire. This letter represents the sound "sha" and was used primarily in transcriptions of foreign names and religious texts. The Phags-Pa script is written vertically from top to bottom, and its characters are based on the Tibetan alphabet, though they feature a distinctive angular, block-like design. Today, it survives mainly in historical inscriptions, manuscripts, and modern scholarly or digital encoding contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A85A |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Sha |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA85A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A85A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua85a |