Cham Letter Final Ss

It marks ss at a syllable’s end, without a built-in vowel. Most Cham consonant letters carry an inherent vowel—a short vowel understood even when it is not written. ꩋ is one of the script’s separately encoded final consonants. A final consonant can also appear inside a word to show where one syllable ends and the next begins.

Cham is descended from Brahmi, an Indic writing family. The script was also used to write Sanskrit, including in the early inscriptions. The earliest surviving evidence of the Cham language is the Đông Yên Châu stone inscription, around 350 CE.

From the 15th century, handwritten Middle Cham became more cursive; modern Cham writing is described from the 19th century onward. As of 2026, use of the Cham script is associated especially with Eastern Cham communities in Vietnam. Western Cham communities also have writing traditions using Jawi, a way of writing with Arabic letters, and Latin letters.

How do you type ꩋ?

Use a Cham keyboard layout. A 2018 ChamKey layout maps this final-letter slot to x typed twice; that mapping is specific to the layout. Without it, use an input method or app that supports Cham character entry.

A font without Cham coverage can show a missing-glyph box. That box is a display failure, not another Cham letter.