U+1A31 "ᨱ" Tai Tham Letter Rana Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᨱ
U+1A31 "ᨱ" Tai Tham Letter Rana is a script character used in the Tai Tham alphabet, which is traditionally employed to write several languages of Southeast Asia, including Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This particular letter represents a retroflex nasal consonant sound, similar to the "ṇa" found in other Brahmic scripts, and is an essential component for accurately spelling words of Pali, Sanskrit, or local origin in these languages. The character's design reflects the distinctive curved and angular calligraphic style of the Tai Tham script, which has historical roots in ancient Mon and Khmer writing systems and continues to hold cultural significance in religious manuscripts and modern digital text representation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A31 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter Rana |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᨱ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᨱ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA8 0xB1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A31 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A31 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a31 |