What 𞋇 means
The sound is aspirated /pʰ/.
Aspiration means a short burst of breath after the p. Between 2001 and 2012, Wancho teacher Banwang Losu developed the script after finding Roman-letter notes too limited for Wancho’s sounds and tones—the pitch patterns that can change a word’s meaning. Some letterforms draw on local forms such as tattoo marks, birds, animals, and crafts. In a 2022 interview, Losu described teaching the script in government schools and recording folktales and folksongs.
Don't confuse it with
4Questions people ask
1Why does 𞋇 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
How to type 𞋇
Windows (Word)
Alt+XType 1E2C7, then Alt+X to get 𞋇.
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 “wancho letter pha”.
Linux
Ctrl+Shift+UType 1e2c7, then Enter or Space.
HTML
𞋇CSS
\1E2C7Wancho keyboard history
A 2013 font project mapped Wancho glyphs to English keyboard keys before they had standardized Unicode character codes; that mapping belonged to the project’s font.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
𞋇
HTML hex
𞋇
CSS content
content: "\1E2C7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9E%8B%87
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.