U+0EAB "ຫ" Lao Letter Ho Sung Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+0EAB "ຫ" Lao Letter Ho Sung is a consonant in the Lao script, classified as a high-class letter that represents the voiceless glottal fricative sound /h/ when used in initial syllable positions. It is distinguished from its counterpart, Ho Tam, by its role in defining the tonal class of a syllable, as the high-class nature of Ho Sung influences the tone of the word according to Lao tonal rules. This character is an essential component of the Lao writing system, which is used to write the Lao language in Laos, and it appears in many common words and lexical contexts.

General Properties

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

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ຫ
HTML Hex Encoding ຫ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE0 0xBA 0xAB
UTF-16 Encoding 0x0EAB
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00000EAB
C/C++/Java Escape \u0eab

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