U+A868 "ꡨ" Phags-Pa Subjoined Letter Ya Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A868 "ꡨ" Phags-Pa Subjoined Letter Ya is a glyph from the Phags-pa script, a writing system created by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa in the 13th century for the unified transcription of languages across the Mongol Yuan dynasty empire, including Chinese, Mongolian, and Tibetan. As the subjoined form of the letter "Ya," this character is used in combination with a preceding base letter to represent a consonant cluster or a medial glide sound, typically appearing below the main character in a vertical stack within the script's distinctive square, Brahmic-inspired layout. Its encoding in the Unicode standard ensures that historical texts written in Phags-pa, such as inscriptions and official documents, can be accurately preserved and digitally reproduced in modern computing environments.

General Properties

Code Point U+A868
Version Added 5.0
Name Phags-Pa Subjoined Letter Ya
Block Phags-pa
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꡨ
HTML Hex Encoding ꡨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA1 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA868
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A868
C/C++/Java Escape \ua868

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