U+A9EA "ꧪ" Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꧪ
U+A9EA "ꧪ" Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Gha is a specific glyph used in the Tai Laing script, a writing system for the Tai Laing language spoken primarily in Myanmar's Kachin State and Sagaing Region, as well as in adjacent areas of India. This character represents the aspirated velar consonant "gha," akin to the sound in the English word "ghost," and is part of the Myanmar Extended-B block, which was added to Unicode to support minority languages that use modified forms of the Myanmar script. Its inclusion helps preserve and digitize the Tai Laing language, facilitating modern communication, education, and cultural documentation for its speakers.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+A9EA |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Myanmar Letter Tai Laing Gha |
| Block | Myanmar Extended-B |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꧪ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꧪ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA7 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xA9EA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000A9EA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ua9ea |