U+A849 "ꡉ" Phags-Pa Letter Tha Unicode Character

U+A849 "ꡉ" Phags-Pa Letter Tha is a specific glyph from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk and statesman Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Yuan dynasty emperor Kublai Khan to write Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and other languages of the empire. This letter represents the aspirated voiceless dental plosive sound "tha," akin to the English "t" followed by a strong burst of air. The Phags-pa script is written vertically from top to bottom, and its letters are derived from Tibetan script, with U+A849 used historically in transcriptions of Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit texts, though it is now primarily of interest to scholars of historical linguistics and epigraphy.