U+AAE9 "ꫩ" Meetei Mayek Letter Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꫩ
U+AAE9 "ꫩ" Meetei Mayek Letter Sha is a character from the Meetei Mayek script, which is used to write the Meitei language, an official language of the Indian state of Manipur. This specific letter represents the sound "sha" and is part of the modern Meetei Mayek alphabet, which was revived and restructured in the 20th century after falling out of common use for many decades. The script itself is an abugida, where each consonant letter inherently carries a vowel sound that can be modified with diacritical marks. The inclusion of "Sha" in the Unicode standard ensures that digital text in the Meitei language can be accurately rendered, stored, and exchanged across modern electronic devices and platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AAE9 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Letter Sha |
| Block | Meetei Mayek Extensions |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꫩ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꫩ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAB 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAAE9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AAE9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaae9 |