U+0E9E "ພ" Lao Letter Pho Tam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ພ
U+0E9E "ພ" Lao Letter Pho Tam is a consonant in the Lao alphabet, representing the aspirated voiceless bilabial plosive sound /pʰ/, and it belongs to the "low class" category of Lao consonants, which influences the tone of a syllable. This character is used in the Lao language, the official language of Laos, and its name "Pho Tam" specifically references its position in the traditional Lao consonant ordering. It is visually distinct with a rounded, loop-like shape and is part of the Lao script block in Unicode, which was added to the standard to support digital representation of the language and its literature.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0E9E |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lao Letter Pho Tam |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ພ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ພ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBA 0x9E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0E9E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000E9E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0e9e |