U+0E33 "ำ" Thai Character Sara Am Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0E33 "ำ" Thai Character Sara Am is a combining vowel symbol in the Thai script, representing the sound "am" as in the English word "ram." It is a distinct character that typically appears above a base consonant, modifying the vowel sound while also incorporating a final nasal consonant. This character is an essential part of Thai orthography, used in common words such as "ทำ" meaning to do or make, and it cannot be split into its constituent parts (a vowel and a final consonant) in standard Unicode encoding, making it a unique composite glyph in the writing system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E33 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Thai Character Sara Am |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Thai Vowel Sign Sara Am |
| Block | Thai |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
| Decomposition Type | Compat |
| Decomposition Mapping | "ํ" U+0E4D Thai Character Nikhahit "า" U+0E32 Thai Character Sara Aa |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ำ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ำ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB8 0xB3 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E33 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E33 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e33 |