U+1A3C "ᨼ" Tai Tham Letter Low Fa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A3C "ᨼ" Tai Tham Letter Low Fa is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida historically employed for writing Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün languages. This specific letter represents the voiced labiodental fricative sound "f" and is classified as a "low" class consonant, meaning it influences the tone of the syllable in which it appears according to the tonal rules of the languages using the script. As part of the Tai Tham block in Unicode, it supports the digital preservation and typing of traditional religious and literary texts from the region.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A3C
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter Low Fa
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᨼ
HTML Hex Encoding ᨼ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA8 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A3C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A3C
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a3c

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