U+AA03 "ꨃ" Cham Letter E Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+AA03 "ꨃ" Cham Letter E is a grapheme used in the Cham script, an abugida traditionally employed to write the Cham languages of Cambodia and Vietnam. This specific character represents the vowel sound /eː/ when it appears in word initial positions, but in most contexts it functions as a diacritic-like vowel carrier that combines with a preceding consonant to form a syllable. The Cham script, which has origins in the Brahmic family of scripts, was historically used for monumental inscriptions dating back to the 4th century, though today it sees reduced usage primarily in religious and cultural contexts among the Cham community.

General Properties

Code Point U+AA03
Version Added 5.1
Name Cham Letter E
Block Cham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ꨃ
HTML Hex Encoding ꨃ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEA 0xA8 0x83
UTF-16 Encoding 0xAA03
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000AA03
C/C++/Java Escape \uaa03

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 Aksara Start
Script Cham
Script Extensions Cham
Indic Syllabic Category Vowel Independent
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 Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter