U+A9E8 "ꧨ" Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Fa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꧨ
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 |