U+0E01 "ก" Thai Character Ko Kai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ก
U+0E01 "ก" Thai Character Ko Kai is the first consonant in the Thai alphabet, corresponding to the sound /k/ in the initial position and /k/ without aspiration, and it is named after the word "ไก่" (kai), meaning chicken. This character is a fundamental building block of written Thai, used in both formal and informal texts across Thailand. It appears in the Thai Unicode block, which was standardized to support digital representation of the Thai script, and its visual form resembles a chicken’s head and neck when viewed in the traditional teaching context.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E01 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Thai Character Ko Kai |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Thai Letter Ko Kai |
| Block | Thai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ก |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ก |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB8 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E01 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E01 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e01 |