U+1A37 "ᨷ" Tai Tham Letter Ba Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A37 "ᨷ" Tai Tham Letter Ba is a glyph used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida historically employed to write languages such as Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific character represents the consonant sound /b/ and is part of a writing system traditionally used for Buddhist manuscript texts, palm-leaf inscriptions, and contemporary digital documentation of these languages. Its inclusion in Unicode facilitates the preservation and accurate rendering of Tai Tham texts across modern computing platforms.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A37
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter Ba
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨷ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨷ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0xB7
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A37
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A37
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a37

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