U+AA08 "ꨈ" Cham Letter Ga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨈ
U+AA08 "ꨈ" Cham Letter Ga is a character from the Cham script, used historically and in modern times for writing the Cham language spoken by the Cham people in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam. This specific character represents the consonant sound "ga," which is pronounced as a voiced velar plosive, similar to the English "g" in "go." It belongs to the Cham block in Unicode, which includes characters for the script's consonants, vowels, and diacritical marks that help form the syllabic structure of the language, preserving the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Cham community.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA08 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Ga |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA08 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA08 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa08 |