U+0E4D "ํ" Thai Character Nikhahit Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+0E4D "ํ" Thai Character Nikhahit is a combining diacritical mark used in the Thai script, primarily employed in Sanskrit and Pali transliterations to represent a nasalization of the vowel sound it modifies. Unlike standard Thai vowels that appear as separate characters, the Nikhahit is a superscript dot-like mark that attaches to a preceding consonant or vowel symbol, serving as a notation for the anusvara sound common in Indic languages. Its usage in Thai text is largely restricted to religious, historical, or scholarly contexts, as it does not appear in everyday modern Thai writing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E4D |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Thai Character Nikhahit |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Thai Nikkhahit |
| Block | Thai |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ํ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ํ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xB9 0x8D |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E4D |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E4D |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e4d |