U+AA09 "ꨉ" Cham Letter Gha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨉ
U+AA09 "ꨉ" Cham Letter Gha is a character from the Cham script, used primarily for writing the Eastern Cham language spoken in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia. It represents a voiced velar aspirated consonant, equivalent to the sound "gh" in linguistic terms. This letter is part of the Cham Unicode block, which was added to support the preservation and digital rendering of Cham literature, religious texts, and modern communication. Its inclusion in Unicode helps ensure that Cham speakers can accurately encode their language in electronic documents and online platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA09 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Gha |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA09 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA09 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa09 |