U+0E2E "ฮ" Thai Character Ho Nokhuk Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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