U+182B "ᠫ" Mongolian Letter Pa Unicode Character

U+182B "ᠫ" Mongolian Letter Pa is a character used in the traditional Mongolian script to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive sound /p/, primarily in loanwords from languages such as Tibetan, Sanskrit, and Chinese, as this phoneme is not native to the Mongolian language itself. It belongs to the Mongolian block of the Unicode standard, which encompasses letters used for writing the classical Mongolian script alongside other related writing systems. The character has a distinctive shape typical of the Mongolian phonetic alphabet, appearing with a curved linear form that varies in positional glyphs depending on whether it appears at the initial, medial, or final position in a word.