U+1A20 "ᨠ" Tai Tham Letter High Ka Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A20 "ᨠ" Tai Tham Letter High Ka is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida historically employed for writing several Tai languages including Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lue, and Khün. It represents the voiceless, aspirated velar stop /kʰ/ and belongs to the high-class consonant group, which influences the tone of the syllable in tone-based languages. This character is encoded in the Unicode Tai Tham block, supporting the digital preservation and typing of ancient and modern texts from the Lanna region, particularly in religious manuscripts and contemporary Tai Lue publications.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A20
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter High Ka
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨠ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨠ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0xA0
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A20
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A20
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a20

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Tai Tham
Script Extensions Tai Tham
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
Indic Conjunct Break Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter