U+A865 "ꡥ" Phags-Pa Letter Gga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡥ
U+A865 "ꡥ" Phags-Pa Letter Gga is a specific glyph from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongolian Yuan dynasty to uniformly write multiple languages such as Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan. This particular letter represents the voiced velar stop sound, equivalent to a hard "g" as in "go," and is distinguished by its rounded, calligraphic form that reflects the script's historical use in imperial seals and religious texts. While the Phags-pa script fell out of common use after the Yuan dynasty, this character remains a valuable artifact in Unicode for scholars studying medieval East Asian linguistics and paleography.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A865 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Gga |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA865 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A865 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua865 |