U+AA1B "ꨛ" Cham Letter Ppa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨛ
U+AA1B "ꨛ" Cham Letter Ppa is a grapheme used in the Cham script, which is traditionally employed to write the Cham languages spoken by the Cham people in Cambodia and Vietnam. Specifically, this character represents an aspirated or implosive "p" sound, distinct from the voiced and unvoiced plosives in the Cham phonetic system. Its inclusion in Unicode supports the digital preservation and modern use of this historic script, which has roots in the former Champa civilization and continues to be used in religious and cultural contexts today.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA1B |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Ppa |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨛ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨛ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA1B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA1B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa1b |