U+1A2E "ᨮ" Tai Tham Letter High Ratha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᨮ
U+1A2E "ᨮ" Tai Tham Letter High Ratha is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed to write languages such as Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific character represents the aspirated retroflex stop sound /ṭh/ and is classified as a "high" consonant in the traditional Tai Tham tonal category system, meaning it influences the tone of a syllable. It is visually distinct from similar characters, like the low Ratha, by a subtle diacritic or shape variation, and it is encoded in the Unicode Block for Tai Tham to support digital text preservation and modern typing of these endangered scripts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A2E |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter High Ratha |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨮ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨮ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0xAE |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A2E |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A2E |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a2e |