U+AA33 "ꨳ" Cham Consonant Sign Ya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨳ
U+AA33 "ꨳ" Cham Consonant Sign Ya is a combining diacritical mark used in the Cham script, a Brahmic-based writing system traditionally employed for the Eastern Cham language in Vietnam and Cambodia. This sign modifies a preceding consonant to indicate a following "ya" sound, functioning as a medial consonant ligature rather than an independent letter. Found in the Cham Unicode block, it is essential for accurately representing the phonetic and orthographic structure of Cham words, where such signs enable the script to convey complex syllable forms without requiring separate vowel letters.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA33 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Consonant Sign Ya |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨳ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨳ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA33 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa33 |