U+A9A5 "ꦥ" Javanese Letter Pa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Aksara
Script Javanese
Script Extensions Javanese
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break 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