U+A918 "ꤘ" Kayah Li Letter Da Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꤘ
U+A918 "ꤘ" Kayah Li Letter Da is a symbol from the Kayah Li script, which is used primarily to write the Kayah languages spoken by the Karenni people in eastern Myanmar and northern Thailand. This specific character represents the voiced alveolar stop sound /d/, functioning as a consonant in the Kayah Li syllabic writing system. The script was developed in the 1960s by Htae Bu Phae and others to preserve the Kayah languages, and it was officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2009 as part of a block dedicated to the script. The letter "Da" is used in the spelling and orthography of Kayah Li, contributing to the representation of its phonetic inventory in written form.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A918 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Kayah Li Letter Da |
| Block | Kayah Li |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꤘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꤘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA4 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA918 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A918 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua918 |