U+0E8F "ຏ" Lao Letter Pali Tta Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ຏ
U+0E8F "ຏ" Lao Letter Pali Tta is a specific glyph used in the Lao script to represent a retroflex voiceless aspirated stop sound, which appears primarily in Pali and Sanskrit loanwords within the Lao language. This character belongs to the Lao block and is derived from the Brahmic script tradition, serving as a distinct letter for transliterating Pali texts. It is not commonly used in everyday modern Lao, but remains important for religious and scholarly contexts where Pali liturgical language is preserved.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E8F |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Lao Letter Pali Tta |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ຏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ຏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E8F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E8F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e8f |