U+0E4E "๎" Thai Character Yamakkan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
๎
U+0E4E "๎" Thai Character Yamakkan is a diacritical mark used in the Thai script, primarily serving as a phonetic marker to indicate that a following consonant cluster should be pronounced as a distinct unit, often facilitating the reading of Sanskrit or Pali loanwords by preventing the inherent vowel from being suppressed. It appears above a consonant and operates differently from other Thai tone or vowel marks, functioning instead as a stylistic or scholarly tool to clarify syllabification in transliterated Indic texts. While not common in everyday Thai writing, the Yamakkan plays a specific role in preserving the pronunciation and etymological transparency of borrowed vocabulary in academic or liturgical contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E4E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Thai Character Yamakkan |
| Unicode 1.0 Name | Thai Yamakkan |
| 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 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E4E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E4E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e4e |