U+A860 "ꡠ" Phags-Pa Letter E Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A860 "ꡠ" Phags-Pa Letter E is a glyph representing a vowel in the Phags-Pa script, a historical alphabet created in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty in Mongolia to write Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and other languages. This specific letter denotes the vowel sound "e," functioning as a phonetic marker within a complex writing system that was designed to transcribe multiple languages with precision. The character is part of the Phags-Pa block in Unicode, which was added to preserve this extinct script for scholarly and linguistic use. Its shape, resembling a stylized horizontal bar with a small vertical stroke, reflects the distinctive calligraphic style of the Phags-Pa script, which was influenced by Tibetan and written vertically from top to bottom, preceding later writing systems in East Asia.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꡠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꡠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA1 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA860 |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A860 |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua860 |
Unicode Properties