U+A866 "ꡦ" Phags-Pa Letter Ee Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡦ
U+A866 "ꡦ" Phags-Pa Letter Ee is part of the Phags-pa script block, representing a specific vowel sound in the historical Mongolian script created by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa in the 13th century. This character, denoting a long or emphasized "e" sound, was used primarily during the Yuan Dynasty to write Mongolian, Chinese, and other languages under the empire for official inscriptions and religious texts. Although the Phags-pa script fell out of common use after the Yuan period, this letter remains essential for scholars studying medieval Asian linguistics and calligraphy, preserving a unique phonetic notation system from a period of significant cultural exchange.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A866 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Ee |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA866 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A866 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua866 |