U+A86F "ꡯ" Phags-Pa Letter Voiced Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡯ
U+A86F "ꡯ" Phags-Pa Letter Voiced Ha is part of 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 write multiple languages, including Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan. This specific character represents a voiced glottal fricative sound, akin to a breathy "h" as in the English word "ahead," and was used to transliterate syllables in languages that distinguished voicing in their consonant inventories. Its inclusion in Unicode allows for the accurate digital representation and preservation of historical texts written in this extinct script, supporting scholarly research into medieval East Asian linguistics and imperial communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A86F |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Voiced Ha |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡯ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡯ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0xAF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA86F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A86F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua86f |