U+AA1A "ꨚ" Cham Letter Pa Unicode Character

U+AA1A "ꨚ" Cham Letter Pa is a glyph from the Cham script, an abugida used historically and in modern times to write the Cham language spoken by the Cham people in parts of Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. This specific character represents the consonant sound "pa" and belongs to the Cham block, which was added to the Unicode Standard in version 5.1 in 2008 to support digital encoding of this Southeast Asian script. The Cham script itself is written from left to right and is closely tied to the cultural and religious heritage of the Cham community, who are predominantly Hindu or Muslim, with this letter used in both secular texts and sacred manuscripts.