U+A9E2 "ꧢ" Myanmar Letter Shan Jha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꧢ
U+A9E2 "ꧢ" Myanmar Letter Shan Jha is a letter from the Myanmar script block, specifically belonging to the Shan language variant used in the Shan State region of Myanmar (Burma). This character represents a voiceless palatal affricate sound, often transliterated as "Jha" and is utilized in the written form of Shan, a Tai-Kadai language, to denote a distinct consonant that is not present in standard Burmese. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard to ensure digital representation and preservation of this minority language's script, allowing for accurate text processing and typography in digital environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9E2 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Shan Jha |
| Block | Myanmar Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꧢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꧢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA7 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9E2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9E2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9e2 |