U+1A49 "ᩉ" Tai Tham Letter High Ha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩉ
U+1A49 "ᩉ" Tai Tham Letter High Ha is a member of the Tai Tham script block, used primarily for writing the Northern Thai, Tai Lü, and Khün languages. This consonant represents a voiceless, aspirated initial sound, similar to the English "h", and is classified as a "high" tone class consonant, which influences the lexical tone of the syllable in which it appears. It derives historically from the Old Mon script and is used in traditional palm-leaf manuscripts and modern digital texts to preserve the linguistic heritage of the region.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A49 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter High Ha |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩉ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩉ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x89 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A49 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A49 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a49 |