U+1A50 "ᩐ" Tai Tham Letter Uu Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A50 "ᩐ" Tai Tham Letter Uu is a character used in the Tai Tham script, which is traditionally employed for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, including Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific letter represents a long vowel sound, typically transliterated as "uu" in romanization, and it functions as an independent vowel character, meaning it stands alone without requiring a consonant base. The Tai Tham script is historically significant for its use in Buddhist manuscripts and inscriptions across the region, and the letter Uu is part of a larger set of vowel symbols that contribute to the accurate representation of the tonal and phonetic features of the languages it serves.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A50
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Letter Uu
Block Tai Tham
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding ᩐ
HTML Hex Encoding ᩐ
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE1 0xA9 0x90
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A50
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A50
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a50

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