U+0E2E "ฮ" Thai Character Ho Nokhuk Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0E2E "ฮ" Thai Character Ho Nokhuk is the forty fourth and final letter of the Thai alphabet, classified as a low class consonant. It represents the glottal fricative sound /h/ and is often used to transcribe foreign words and loanwords, particularly those starting with an 'h' sound from languages such as English. The name "Ho Nokhuk" translates to "owl's head," referencing a traditional memory aid for the letter's shape, and it is one of the least common native Thai consonants, appearing primarily in borrowed vocabulary.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E2E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Thai Character Ho Nokhuk |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Thai Letter Ho Nok Huk |
| Block | Thai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ฮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ฮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB8 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e2e |