U+0E96 "ຖ" Lao Letter Tho Sung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ຖ
U+0E96 "ຖ" Lao Letter Tho Sung is a consonant in the Lao alphabet, classified as a high-class letter and pronounced as an aspirated voiceless dental stop, similar to the English "t" sound but with a strong outward puff of air, as in the word "top." It is used in the standard Lao script for writing the Lao language, most commonly found in the initial position of syllables, and its name "Tho Sung" literally translates to "high Tho," reflecting its high tonal class in the language's complex tone system.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E96 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lao Letter Tho Sung |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ຖ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ຖ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E96 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e96 |