U+A9A5 "ꦥ" Javanese Letter Pa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꦥ
U+A9A5 "ꦥ" Javanese Letter Pa is a glyph from the Javanese script used to write the Javanese and related languages such as Sundanese and Madurese, representing the sound "pa". It belongs to the Javanese block within Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane and is historically derived from the Kawi script, an ancient writing system of Southeast Asia. In its standard form, this letter appears as a consonant with the inherent vowel "a", and it can be modified by diacritical marks to represent other vowel sounds, making it a fundamental building block for written text in the Javanese literary and cultural tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9A5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Javanese Letter Pa |
| Block | Javanese |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꦥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꦥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA6 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9A5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9A5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9a5 |