U+A865 "ꡥ" Phags-Pa Letter Gga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+A865 "ꡥ" 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.
General Properties
Code Point
U+A865
Name
Phags-Pa Letter Gga
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
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Phags Pa