U+ABD8 "ꯘ" Meetei Mayek Letter Ghou Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꯘ
U+ABD8 "ꯘ" Meetei Mayek Letter Ghou is a symbol from the Meetei Mayek script, which is used to write the Meitei language, the official language of the Indian state of Manipur. This specific character represents the consonant sound "gh" and is one of the letters in the Meetei Mayek alphabet, which was revived and standardized in the 20th century after a period of decline due to the historical adoption of the Bengali script. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures that the Meitei language can be accurately represented in digital text, supporting the preservation and modern use of this indigenous writing system for cultural and educational purposes.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+ABD8 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Meetei Mayek Letter Ghou |
| Block | Meetei Mayek |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꯘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꯘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAF 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xABD8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000ABD8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uabd8 |