U+0E12 "ฒ" Thai Character Tho Phuthao Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0E12 "ฒ" Thai Character Tho Phuthao is a consonant in the Thai alphabet specifically belonging to the low class of consonants, and it represents the sound [tʰ] as in the English "th" but aspirated and unvoiced, similar to the "th" in "think". Its name "Tho Phuthao" translates to "old man", with "phuthao" referring to an elderly person. In the Thai consonant chart, it is the twenty-second letter and occupies a position after "ธ" (Tho Thong) and before "ณ" (No Nen). This character is used in writing native Thai words as well as loanwords, and it is relatively uncommon in everyday vocabulary compared to more frequent Thai consonants. In the Thai numerical system for consonants, it is sometimes associated with the number twenty two due to its sequential order, and it follows the unique orthographic rule that it is never used with a tone mark in its standard form, as its inherent tone is determined by the low class consonant rules.

General Properties

Code Point U+0E12
Version Added 1.1
Name Thai Character Tho Phuthao
Unicode 1.0 Name Thai Letter Tho Phuthao
Block Thai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ฒ
HTML Hex Encoding ฒ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB8 0x92
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0E12
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000E12
C/C++/Java Escape \u0e12

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