U+A865 "" Phags-Pa Letter Gga Unicode Character

Unicode Version 18.0

Source: Noto Sans Phags Pa Source: Browser Default

U+A865 "" Phags-Pa Letter Gga is a specific glyph from the Phags-pa script, an alphabet created in the 13th century by the Tibetan monk Drogön Chögyal Phagpa for the Mongolian Yuan dynasty to uniformly write multiple languages such as Mongolian, Chinese, and Tibetan. This particular letter represents the voiced velar stop sound, equivalent to a hard "g" as in "go," and is distinguished by its rounded, calligraphic form that reflects the script's historical use in imperial seals and religious texts. While the Phags-pa script fell out of common use after the Yuan dynasty, this character remains a valuable artifact in Unicode for scholars studying medieval East Asian linguistics and paleography.

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding
ꡥ
HTML Hex Encoding
ꡥ
UTF-8 Encoding
0xEA 0xA1 0xA5
UTF-16 Encoding
0xA865
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0000A865
C/C++/Java Escape
\ua865