U+1A4F "ᩏ" Tai Tham Letter U Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩏ
U+1A4F "ᩏ" Tai Tham Letter U is a character used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing languages such as Northern Thai (also known as Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün in parts of Southeast Asia. This specific letter represents the vowel sound "u", functioning as an independent vowel character that cannot be attached to a consonant as a diacritic. Its inclusion in the Unicode standard at version 7.0 in 2014 helps preserve and digitally support the ancient script for modern documentation, communication, and cultural heritage projects.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A4F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter U |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩏ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩏ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x8F |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A4F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A4F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a4f |