U+1A4E "ᩎ" Tai Tham Letter Ii Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A4E "ᩎ" Tai Tham Letter Ii is a glyph representing the specific vowel sound "ii" in the Tai Tham script, a writing system historically used for the Northern Thai, Tai Lue, and Khün languages. This character is part of the Tai Tham block of the Unicode standard, which encodes the script employed in religious and secular manuscripts across parts of Southeast Asia, particularly in northern Thailand, Laos, and the Shan State of Myanmar. The letter "Ii" functions as an independent vowel character, distinct in its visual form and phonetic value from other vowels and consonants in the Tai Tham abugida, where it typically corresponds to a long, high front vowel sound. Its inclusion in Unicode ensures digital preservation and consistent representation of this historic script for modern computing, text processing, and linguistic research.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A4E
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter Ii
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᩎ
HTML Hex Encoding ᩎ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA9 0x8E
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A4E
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A4E
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a4e

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 Vowel Independent
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