U+AA36 "ꨶ" Cham Consonant Sign Wa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꨶ
U+AA36 "ꨶ" Cham Consonant Sign Wa is a diacritical mark used in the Cham script to represent the consonant sound "wa" as a modifying sign attached to a base consonant. This character is part of the Cham block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the writing system of the Cham language spoken by the Cham people in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia. It appears as a subscript or attached symbol, altering the pronunciation of the preceding consonant by adding a "w" glide, and is essential for accurately writing and reading Cham texts in its various dialects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA36 |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Consonant Sign Wa |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꨶ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꨶ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA8 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA36 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA36 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa36 |