U+0EC3 "ໃ" Lao Vowel Sign Ay Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ໃ
U+0EC3 "ໃ" Lao Vowel Sign Ay is a combining mark used in the Lao script to represent the vowel sound [ai] with a distinctive curled diacritic placed above a consonant to modify its pronunciation. It is an essential component of the Lao writing system, primarily used in the Lao language spoken in Laos, and appears in words like ໃຈ (chai, meaning heart) and ໃສ່ (sai, meaning to insert). This character is part of the Lao block in Unicode, encoded for digital text representation to preserve the linguistic and cultural heritage of the Lao people.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0EC3 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lao Vowel Sign Ay |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ໃ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ໃ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBB 0x83 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0EC3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000EC3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ec3 |