U+A9E8 "ꧨ" Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Fa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+A9E8 "ꧨ" Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Fa is a specific glyph used in the Tai Laing script, which is a writing system employed for the Tai Laing language, also known as Shan or Tai Long, spoken by communities primarily in Myanmar and adjacent regions of India and China. This character represents the consonant sound "fa" and belongs to the Myanmar Extended-A block of the Unicode Standard, having been encoded to support the accurate digital representation of this minority language's phonetics and orthography. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and facilitate modern digital communication, documentation, and typography for the Tai Laing linguistic heritage.

General Properties

Code Point U+A9E8
Version Added 7.0
Name Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Fa
Block Myanmar Extended-B
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꧨ
HTML Hex Encoding ꧨ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA7 0xA8
UTF-16 Encoding 0xA9E8
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000A9E8
C/C++/Java Escape \ua9e8

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