U+A86C "ꡬ" Phags-Pa Letter Nna Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
U+A86C "ꡬ" Phags-Pa Letter Nna is a symbol from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongol Yuan dynasty to uniformly transcribe languages like Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. This specific character represents the voiced retroflex nasal sound /ɳ/, similar to the "n" sound in English "burn" but articulated with the tongue curled back. The Phags-pa script was written vertically from top to bottom, and its letters were derived from Tibetan script, though they were designed with a more angular and uniform style to facilitate administrative and imperial use. Today, the script is of great historical interest to scholars of paleography and medieval East Asian linguistics, as it provides insights into the phonetic systems and cross cultural communication of the Mongol Empire.
General Properties
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding |
ꡬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding |
ꡬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding |
0xEA 0xA1 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding |
0xA86C |
| UTF-32 Encoding |
0x0000A86C |
| C/C++/Java Escape |
\ua86c |
Unicode Properties