U+AA4C "ꩌ" Cham Consonant Sign Final M Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꩌ
U+AA4C "ꩌ" Cham Consonant Sign Final M is a diacritical mark used in the Cham script, an abugida that is traditionally employed to write the Cham languages of Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia and Vietnam. This specific character functions as a final consonant sign, indicating a closing or final "m" sound at the end of a syllable, thereby modifying the phonetic value of the base consonant it attaches to. It is part of the Cham block in Unicode, which was added to the standard to support the digital preservation and accurate rendering of this historically and culturally significant writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA4C |
| Version Added | 5.1 |
| Name | Cham Consonant Sign Final M |
| 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 0xA9 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA4C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA4C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa4c |