U+1A46 "ᩆ" Tai Tham Letter High Sha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩆ
U+1A46 "ᩆ" Tai Tham Letter High Sha is a member of the Tai Tham script block, which is historically used for writing the Northern Thai (Lan Na), Tai Lue, and Khün languages. This specific character represents the sound "sha," classified as a "high" class consonant in the language's tonal system, which influences the pitch of a syllable. In traditional usage, it appears within palm-leaf manuscripts and religious texts, and in modern computing, it supports the digital preservation of these scripts. The character is encoded in the Unicode Standard, ensuring its consistent representation across different platforms and software applications.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A46 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter High Sha |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩆ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩆ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A46 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a46 |