U+1A47 "ᩇ" Tai Tham Letter High Ssa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩇ
U+1A47 "ᩇ" Tai Tham Letter High Ssa is a consonant used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing the Northern Thai (Lanna) language, as well as Tai Lü and other related Tai languages. This specific character represents a high-class sibilant sound, approximately equivalent to the voiceless retroflex fricative, and it belongs to a set of letters that are grouped by tonal class, which helps determine the tone of the syllable in which it appears. Visually, it resembles a distinct, looping form that is smaller and more stylized compared to its low-class counterpart, and it is encoded in the Unicode standard to support the digital preservation and typography of this historical and culturally significant script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A47 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter High Ssa |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩇ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩇ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A47 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a47 |