U+0EA2 "ຢ" Lao Letter Yo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0EA2 "ຢ" Lao Letter Yo is a consonant in the Lao script, representing the sound /j/ as in the English "yes." It is classified as a low class consonant in the tonal hierarchy of the Lao language, which influences the tone of the syllable it begins. This character is used in both the standard Lao alphabet and in religious Pali texts, where it may appear in words of Indic origin. In Unicode, it occupies the block U+0E80 to U+0EFF, designated for Lao script characters, and is encoded in UTF-8 as the three byte sequence E0 BA A2.

General Properties

Code Point U+0EA2
Version Added 1.1
Name Lao Letter Yo
Block Lao
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ຢ
HTML Hex Encoding ຢ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBA 0xA2
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0EA2
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000EA2
C/C++/Java Escape \u0ea2

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Lao
Script Extensions Lao
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter