U+0EAB "ຫ" Lao Letter Ho Sung Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ຫ
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 |