U+A938 "ꤸ" Rejang Letter Ma Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A938 "ꤸ" Rejang Letter Ma is part of the Rejang script, which is used to write the Rejang language spoken on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. This character represents the consonant sound "ma" and belongs to a historically significant script that is related to other Brahmic scripts of Southeast Asia. The Rejang script was traditionally used for writing on bamboo, bark, and animal horn, though it has largely been supplanted by the Latin alphabet in modern times. As a member of the Unicode standard, this letter helps preserve the script's cultural heritage and enables digital use for contemporary writing and scholarly research.

General Properties

Code Point U+A938
Version Added 5.1
Name Rejang Letter Ma
Block Rejang
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꤸ
HTML Hex Encoding ꤸ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA4 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA938
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A938
C/C++/Java Escape \ua938

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 Rejang
Script Extensions Rejang
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