U+AA4A "ꩊ" Cham Letter Final L Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꩊ
U+AA4A "ꩊ" Cham Letter Final L is a glyph used in the Cham script, which is employed to write the Eastern Cham and Western Cham languages spoken primarily in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia. This specific character represents a final consonant sound "l" that occurs at the end of a syllable, distinguishing it from the initial or medial forms of the letter. It is part of the Cham block in Unicode, added to support the accurate digital representation of the script's unique orthography, where final consonants often have distinct shapes compared their onset counterparts. The character helps preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Cham people by enabling proper text encoding and rendering in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA4A |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Letter Final L |
| Block | Cham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꩊ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꩊ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xA9 0x8A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA4A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA4A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa4a |