U+1A45 "ᩅ" Tai Tham Letter Wa Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A45 "ᩅ" Tai Tham Letter Wa is a glyph representing the consonant "wa" in the Tai Tham script, a historical and modern writing system used primarily for the Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lue, and Khün languages in parts of Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and China. This script, also known as Lanna or Tham, is traditionally employed for Buddhist palm-leaf manuscripts and religious texts, as well as for secular purposes in some communities. The letter "wa" corresponds to the sound /w/ and is part of a larger set of consonants and vowel diacritics that make up the Tai Tham alphasyllabary, which is closely related to the Mon-Burmese script family. Its inclusion in Unicode helps preserve and digitize the cultural and linguistic heritage of the regions where the script remains in use today.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A45
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter Wa
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᩅ
HTML Hex Encoding ᩅ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA9 0x85
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A45
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A45
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a45

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