U+0ECE "໎" Lao Yamakkan Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
໎
U+0ECE "໎" Lao Yamakkan is a diacritical mark used in the Lao script, primarily functioning as a tone marker to indicate a specific tone alteration for the syllable it accompanies. Its name, "Yamakkan," derives from a linguistic convention in historical Lao writing traditions, though it is now considered obsolete in modern standard Lao orthography. This character appears in the Unicode block for Lao, reflecting efforts to encode traditional and historical scripts for digital preservation and scholarly research.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+0ECE |
| Version Added | 15.0 |
| Name | Lao Yamakkan |
| Block | Lao |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ໎ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ໎ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE0 0xBB 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x0ECE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00000ECE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u0ece |