CHAM LETTER YA character

CHAM LETTER YA
U+AA22
43554
ꨢ
ꨢ
Lo (Letter, Other)
L (Left-to-Right)
N
0
Cham
0
BMP
Basic Multilingual Plane
0000-FFFF
ꨢ












CHAM LETTER YA is other letters, including syllables and ideographs from the Basic Multilingual Plane.

The bidi class of CHAM LETTER YA is Left-to-Right (Strong). It belongs to the strong left-to-right characters..

The Left-to-Right (L) bidi class is assigned to characters that are written from left to right. This includes most alphabetic characters from Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, and other scripts that are typically written in this direction. The presence of L characters in a text influences the overall text directionality in bidirectional contexts.

Other Letter (Lo) refers to letters that do not fit into the uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, or modifier letter categories. These include letters from scripts that do not have case distinction, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, and others. This category is also used for syllabic and ideographic characters that function as letters.

This character belongs to the Cham block. The Cham block contains characters used in the Cham script, which is used for writing the Cham language spoken by the Cham people in Vietnam and Cambodia. The script is an abugida, where each consonant has an inherent vowel sound that can be modified by diacritics. The Cham script is one of the oldest in Southeast Asia, with inscriptions dating back to the 4th century CE. The script has been used for religious texts, poetry, and historical records. This block includes all the characters needed to write in Cham, reflecting the script’s importance in the cultural and religious heritage of the Cham people..