U+AA02 "ꨂ" Cham Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨂ
U+AA02 "ꨂ" Cham Letter U is a glyph from the Cham script, used historically and in modern contexts to write the Cham language, primarily spoken by the Cham people in Vietnam and Cambodia. This character represents the vowel sound "u" in the Cham alphabet, functioning as an independent letter rather than a diacritic mark. It is encoded in the Unicode Standard's Cham block, which was added to support digital representation of this Southeast Asian script, preserving cultural heritage and enabling text processing for languages like Eastern and Western Cham.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA02 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter U |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨂ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨂ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA02 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA02 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa02 |