U+AA06 "ꨆ" Cham Letter Ka Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨆ
U+AA06 "ꨆ" Cham Letter Ka is a glyph from the Cham script, an abugida historically used to write the Cham languages of Cambodia and Vietnam. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ka" and is part of a script descended from Brahmi-based writing systems, reflecting the rich cultural and linguistic heritage of the Cham people. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitally support this traditional Southeast Asian script for modern use in documents, communication, and language revitalization efforts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA06 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Ka |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA06 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA06 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa06 |