U+A84F "ꡏ" Phags-Pa Letter Ma Unicode Character

U+A84F "ꡏ" Phags-Pa Letter Ma is a script character from the Phags-pa alphabet, a writing system created in the 13th century during the Yuan Dynasty by the Tibetan monk and state preceptor Drogön Chögyal Phagpa to uniformly transcribe the languages of the Mongol Empire, including Mongolian, Chinese, Tibetan, and Sanskrit. This specific letter represents the consonant sound "ma" and is written as a vertical or horizontal syllabic block in the Phags-pa script, which is typically composed from left to right or top to bottom. It is part of the Phags-pa block of Unicode, which was encoded in version 5.0 in 2006, and today it is primarily of interest to linguists, historians, and scholars studying medieval East Asian languages and inscriptions.