U+A870 "ꡰ" Phags-Pa Letter Aspirated Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꡰ
U+A870 "ꡰ" Phags-Pa Letter Aspirated Fa is a glyph from the Phags-pa script, a historical alphabet created in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty to transcribe Mongolian, Chinese, and other languages of the empire. Specifically aspirated, it represents a breathed or heavy sound similar to a "pʰ" in phonetic terms, and it belongs to the Phags-pa block of the Unicode standard, which was added to support the scholarly and linguistic study of this extinct script. This character is used in contexts like historical documents and digital typography for accurately representing medieval Mongolian and Chinese phonological systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A870 |
| Version Added | 5.0 |
| Name | Phags-Pa Letter Aspirated Fa |
| Block | Phags-pa |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꡰ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꡰ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA1 0xB0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA870 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A870 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua870 |