U+A90B "ꤋ" Kayah Li Letter Kha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A90B "ꤋ" Kayah Li Letter Kha is part of the Kayah Li script, which was designed in the 20th century for writing the Kayah languages of eastern Myanmar and western Thailand. This specific character represents the aspirated velar plosive consonant sound /kʰ/, similar to the 'k' sound in English but with a strong puff of air. It is used in the standard orthography for both Western Kayah (also known as Karenni) and Eastern Kayah, appearing in texts such as educational materials, religious translations, and community communications. The Kayah Li script, encoded in Unicode Block A900, was developed to preserve and promote the linguistic identity of the Kayah people, making characters like "ꤋ" essential for accurate written representation of their spoken language.

General Properties

Code Point U+A90B
Version Added 5.1
Name Kayah Li Letter Kha
Block Kayah Li
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꤋ
HTML Hex Encoding ꤋ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA4 0x8B
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA90B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A90B
C/C++/Java Escape \ua90b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Alphabetic
Script Kayah Li
Script Extensions Kayah Li
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
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