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
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