U+1A4C "ᩌ" Tai Tham Letter Low Ha Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A4C "ᩌ" Tai Tham Letter Low Ha is a glyph used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing languages such as Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific letter represents a low-class consonant sound approximating the English "h," and its classification as a "low" tone letter indicates that it influences the tonal pronunciation of a syllable within the script's complex tonal system. Primarily found in religious and historical texts from the Lanna kingdom region, this character is part of a larger, alphasyllabic writing system that descends from ancient Brahmi scripts and is known for its rounded, ornate appearance.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A4C
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter Low Ha
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᩌ
HTML Hex Encoding ᩌ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA9 0x8C
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A4C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A4C
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a4c

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