U+1A2C "ᨬ" Tai Tham Letter Nya Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A2C "ᨬ" Tai Tham Letter Nya is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing the Northern Thai (Lanna) language, as well as Tai Lü and Khün. This character represents the palatal nasal sound "nya," similar to the "ñ" in the Spanish word "niño." The Tai Tham script itself is an abugida descended from the Old Mon script, and the letter Nya is part of a set of characters that preserve the cultural and religious literature of Theravada Buddhist traditions in Southeast Asia. In modern usage, its digital encoding allows for the preservation and digital communication of texts in these endangered languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A2C |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter Nya |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨬ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨬ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A2C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A2C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a2c |