Cham letter ha

ꨨ belongs to Akhar Thrah, the Eastern Cham script: it marks the consonant ha inside a written syllable. A vowel sign can change that syllable’s built-in vowel.

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What ꨨ means

ꨨ is Cham’s ha consonant letter, read within a syllable. Most Cham consonants carry a built-in vowel; a separate vowel sign can change it.

Cham writing developed from Pallava, an older South Asian script descended from Brahmi. The oldest surviving written Cham-language evidence is the Đông Yên Châu inscription, a stone inscription dated around the fourth or fifth century.

From the mid-nineteenth century, many Cambodian Muslim manuscript communities shifted toward Jawi, an Arabic-based script used for Malay; Imam San communities kept using Cham script. Some Cham vowel signs are stored after a consonant even though they appear to its left. Fonts may also give ꨨ different outlines.

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Southeast Asian Minority Scripts (Kayah Li, Kawi, Ahom, Cham …)

Who writes ꨨ

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Questions people ask

Why does ꨨ show as a box on some devices?

Not every system ships a font for the Cham block. Where none is installed, the character shows as an empty box; adding a font such as Noto fixes it. The character itself is still correct and copies correctly.