U+AAE2 "ꫢ" Meetei Mayek Letter Cha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꫢ
U+AAE2 "ꫢ" Meetei Mayek Letter Cha is a letter from the Meetei Mayek script, which is used to write the Meitei language, an official language of the Indian state of Manipur. This specific character represents the consonant sound "cha" in the Meitei phonemic inventory, similar to the "ch" sound in English words like "chair". It is part of the modern, standardized version of the ancient Brahmi-derived script, which was formally revived and added to the Unicode Standard in 2009 to support digital communication and preservation of the Meitei language and culture.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAE2 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Letter Cha |
| Block | Meetei Mayek Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꫢ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꫢ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAB 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaae2 |