U+0EC8 "່" Lao Tone Mai Ek Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
່
U+0EC8 "່" Lao Tone Mai Ek is a combining diacritical mark used in the Lao script to represent the low-falling or high-falling tone, depending on the class of the syllable it modifies, and it appears above a consonant letter to alter its tonal pronunciation, functioning as an essential component of the Lao writing system to distinguish meaning among otherwise identical phonetic syllables.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0EC8 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Lao Tone Mai Ek |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | CCC122 |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ່ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ່ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBB 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0EC8 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000EC8 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ec8 |