U+AA16 "ꨖ" Cham Letter Dha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨖ
U+AA16 "ꨖ" Cham Letter Dha is a specific glyph used in the Cham script, which is primarily employed to write the Cham languages spoken by the Cham people in parts of Cambodia and Vietnam. This character represents a voiced aspirated dental stop, corresponding to the sound "dha" in phonetic transcription, and it contributes to the detailed representation of consonants in the Cham writing system. Part of the Cham block in Unicode, this letter is vital for accurately preserving and digitizing oral and written traditions, including religious texts, epics, and contemporary communications among Cham communities.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA16 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Dha |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA16 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA16 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa16 |