U+1A26 "ᨦ" Tai Tham Letter Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᨦ
U+1A26 "ᨦ" Tai Tham Letter Nga is a grapheme from the Tai Tham script, historically used for languages like Northern Thai, Tai Lü, and Khün. It represents the velar nasal sound /ŋ/, similar to the "ng" in the English word "sing," and is a fundamental consonant in providing the tonal and phonetic structure of these languages. This character is part of the Tai Tham block of Unicode, which was encoded to preserve and digitally support the rich literary and religious traditions of the Tai peoples, particularly in manuscripts and modern computing contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A26 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter Nga |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨦ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨦ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A26 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A26 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a26 |