U+A867 "ꡧ" Phags-Pa Subjoined Letter Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A867 "ꡧ" Phags-Pa Subjoined Letter Wa is a glyph from the Phags-pa script, a historic writing system created in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia under the direction of the Tibetan lama Drogön Chögyal Phagpa to unify writing across the multilingual Mongol Empire. This specific character represents the sound "wa" and is used in a subjoined position, meaning it attaches below other letters to modify pronunciation, typical of the script's vertical and consonant stack structure. It was primarily employed for writing Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit religious and administrative texts, though the script fell out of common use after the Yuan Dynasty ended, making this character a valuable artifact for historical linguistics and paleography.

General Properties

Code Point U+A867
Version Added 5.0
Name Phags-Pa Subjoined Letter Wa
Block Phags-pa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꡧ
HTML Hex Encoding ꡧ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA1 0xA7
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA867
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A867
C/C++/Java Escape \ua867

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Joining Type Dual Joining
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Phags Pa
Script Extensions Phags Pa
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant Subjoined
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter