U+A9E3 "ꧣ" Myanmar Letter Shan Nna Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A9E3 "ꧣ" Myanmar Letter Shan Nna is a specific glyph used in the Myanmar script to represent a consonant sound in the Shan language, a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily in Myanmar's Shan State and neighboring regions. This character belongs to the Unicode block designated for Myanmar Extended-A, which was introduced to support the additional letters and tone marks needed by minority languages like Shan. The letter "Nna" is distinct from the standard Myanmar "Na" and is used to denote a retroflex nasal sound, written with a special diacritic-like modification. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text and documents can accurately represent the written form of Shan, preserving linguistic diversity in electronic communication and software.

General Properties

Code Point U+A9E3
Version Added 7.0
Name Myanmar Letter Shan Nna
Block Myanmar Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꧣ
HTML Hex Encoding ꧣ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA7 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA9E3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A9E3
C/C++/Java Escape \ua9e3

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 Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Myanmar
Script Extensions Myanmar
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 Other
Sentence Break OLetter