U+1172A "𑜪" Ahom Vowel Sign Am Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1172A "𑜪" Ahom Vowel Sign Am is a diacritical mark used in the Ahom script, an abugida historically employed to write the Ahom language of the Tai Ahom people in Assam, India. This vowel sign represents the dependent vowel sound "am" and is placed after a consonant character to modify its pronunciation, typically indicating a final nasalized "a" or "am" sound. It forms part of the Ahom block in Unicode, which was added to support the revival and digital preservation of this endangered script, used in ancient manuscripts recording Ahom history, religion, and legal texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1172A |
| Version Added | 8.0 |
| Name | Ahom Vowel Sign Am |
| Block | Ahom |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑜪 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑜪 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0x9C 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD805 0xDF2A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001172A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud805\udf2a |