U+1A48 "ᩈ" Tai Tham Letter High Sa Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩈ
U+1A48 "ᩈ" Tai Tham Letter High Sa is a graphical symbol from the Tai Tham script block, representing a high class consonant sound in languages such as Northern Thai, Tai Lü, and Khün. This character corresponds to the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ and is named for its high tonal register, distinguishing it from the low class equivalent in the same script. Historically rooted in the Lanna cultural tradition, it is used primarily in religious and literary texts within the Dhamma script lineage, and its encoded form in Unicode enables digital preservation and accurate rendering of these languages in modern computing environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A48 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter High Sa |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A48 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A48 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a48 |