U+A847 "ꡇ" Phags-Pa Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+A847 "ꡇ" Phags-Pa Letter Nya is a specific glyph from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty of China to uniformly write Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and other languages. This particular letter, named Nya, represents a palatal nasal sound, equivalent to the "ñ" in Spanish or the "ny" in "canyon", and was used in transliterating Sanskrit and other Asian languages into the Phags-pa system. The Phags-pa script, designed by the Tibetan monk and imperial preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa, fell out of use after the Yuan Dynasty ended in the 14th century, making characters like U+A847 important for historical linguistic study and digital preservation of ancient texts.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A847
Name
Phags-Pa Letter Nya
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
ꡇ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꡇ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA1 0x87
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA847
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A847
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua847
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Phags Pa