U+11A2D "𑨭" Zanabazar Square Letter Va Unicode Character

U+11A2D "𑨭" Zanabazar Square Letter Va is part of the Zanabazar Square script, an abugida historically used in Mongolia and Tibet to write Buddhist texts, particularly in the Mongolian and Tibetan languages. This script was created in the late 17th century by the influential Buddhist monk and scholar Zanabazar, who also designed the Soyombo script. The specific character "Va" represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound /v/ or occasionally /w/ and is used to transcribe foreign words and sacred mantras within religious manuscripts. The Zanabazar Square script is notable for its square, geometric letterforms and its inclusion in the Unicode Standard as a vital resource for preserving and digitally encoding historical Central Asian Buddhist literature.