U+1A39 "ᨹ" Tai Tham Letter High Pha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A39 "ᨹ" Tai Tham Letter High Pha is a letter used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida traditionally employed to write the Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lue, and Khün languages. This specific character represents the aspirated voiceless bilabial stop sound /pʰ/, and it belongs to the high class of consonants, which influences the tone of the syllable in tonal languages. It is typographically distinct from its low class counterpart and is often encountered in historical palm-leaf manuscripts, religious texts, and modern digital contexts where the Tai Tham script is preserved for cultural and linguistic purposes.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A39
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter High Pha
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨹ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨹ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0xB9
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A39
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A39
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a39

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