What ꩊ means
Cham’s syllable-final l.
A coda is the consonant that closes a syllable. ꩊ can sit between syllables inside a single word.
Why does Cham have a final-l letter?
Cham gives syllable-final consonants dedicated letters.
A virama is a mark that cancels the vowel normally carried by a consonant; Cham instead has dedicated final letters. Cham developed from Brahmi, a South Asian script, through Pallava-related traditions. Inscriptions attest Cham in the late 4th century CE; in later periods, Cham writing also served ritual, historical, poetic, and administrative purposes.
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4Questions people ask
1Why does ꩊ show as a box?
It usually means your font lacks a glyph for ꩊ. Use a font with Cham-script coverage.
How to type ꩊ
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType AA4A, then Alt+X to get ꩊ.
Windows
Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win + .).
macOS
Control+Command+SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “cham letter final l”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType aa4a, then Enter or Space.
HTML
ꩊCSS
\AA4AHow to type ꩊ
If your editor supports Unicode input, enter U+AA4A through that method; keystrokes depend on the system and app.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
ꩊ
HTML hex
ꩊ
CSS content
content: "\AA4A";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%EA%A9%8A
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.