U+A9E4 "ꧤ" Myanmar Letter Shan Bha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꧤ
U+A9E4 "ꧤ" Myanmar Letter Shan Bha is a specific character used in the Myanmar script, representing a sound from the Shan language, which is a Tai-Kadai language spoken primarily in the Shan State of Myanmar and neighboring regions. This character denotes the aspirated bilabial plosive consonant "bha," distinguished from the unaspirated "ba" by the presence of an extra diacritic-like element that modifies the base consonant. It is part of the Myanmar Extended-A block, which was added to Unicode to support the full range of sounds in minority languages like Shan that use adapted versions of the Burmese script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9E4 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Shan Bha |
| Block | Myanmar Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꧤ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꧤ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA7 0xA4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9E4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9E4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9e4 |