U+0E1B "ป" Thai Character Po Pla Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0E1B "ป" Thai Character Po Pla is the 27th consonant of the Thai alphabet, representing the sound "p" as in the English word "spoon" but unaspirated. Its name, Po Pla, translates to "fish" (ปลา), the word that traditionally accompanies this letter in learning the Thai script. Visually similar to a number of other Thai consonants, it is classified as a mid-class consonant in the three-tiered Thai tonal system. In modern usage, it appears frequently in both native Thai words and loanwords, serving as one of the basic building blocks for writing the Thai language.

General Properties

Code Point U+0E1B
Version Added 1.1
Name Thai Character Po Pla
Unicode 1.0 Name Thai Letter Po Pla
Block Thai
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ป
HTML Hex Encoding ป
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xB8 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0E1B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000E1B
C/C++/Java Escape \u0e1b

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