U+1A3A "ᨺ" Tai Tham Letter High Fa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A3A "ᨺ" Tai Tham Letter High Fa is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Tai Lue, and Khün languages. This character represents the voiceless labiodental fricative sound /f/ and belongs to the high-class consonant group within the script, where its unique shape distinguishes it from the low-class counterpart. It is encoded in the Tai Tham block of Unicode, supporting digital preservation and modern typographic representation of this ancient script.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A3A
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter High Fa
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨺ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨺ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0xBA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A3A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A3A
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a3a

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