U+0E04 "ค" Thai Character Kho Khwai Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0E04 "ค" Thai Character Kho Khwai is the fourteenth letter of the Thai alphabet and represents an aspirated velar plosive sound, pronounced like the English "k" as in "kite" but with a strong puff of air. It is classified as a low class consonant within the Thai tonal system, which influences the tone of a syllable when combined with a vowel and final consonant. The name "Kho Khwai" literally means "water buffalo" and is part of a traditional Thai mnemonics system where each letter is associated with a word, often an animal or object, to aid in learning. In modern usage, this character appears frequently in written Thai across both formal and informal contexts, and it is notably used in the word for oneself "ผม" (phom) for male speakers, though the letter itself is not possessive.

General Properties

Code Point U+0E04
Version Added 1.1
Name Thai Character Kho Khwai
Unicode 1.0 Name Thai Letter Kho Khwai
Block Thai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ค
HTML Hex Encoding ค
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB8 0x84
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0E04
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000E04
C/C++/Java Escape \u0e04

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Thai
Script Extensions Thai
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter