U+A85C "ꡜ" Phags-Pa Letter Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡜ
U+A85C "ꡜ" Phags-Pa Letter Ha is a glyph from the Phags-Pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for Kublai Khan to unify the writing of the various languages within the Mongol Empire, including Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan. Specifically, this character represents the consonant sound "ha" in the Phags-Pa system, which was designed to be written vertically in columns like traditional Mongolian script. The Phags-Pa script fell out of common use after the Yuan Dynasty ended, but it remains historically significant for its role in early attempts at multilingual standardization and is preserved in Unicode for scholarly and digital documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A85C |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Ha |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡜ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡜ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA85C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A85C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua85c |