U+1A53 "ᩓ" Tai Tham Letter Lae Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A53 "ᩓ" Tai Tham Letter Lae is a character used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida traditionally employed to write the Northern Thai (Lan Na), Tai Lue, and Khün languages. This specific letter represents the sound "lae," which functions primarily as a ligature or a conjunct form, often used to combine the consonant "la" with a vowel or as a distinct syllable in its own right. In the writing system, it is integral to accurately transcribing the phonetics of these Tai languages, especially in religious, historical, and literary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A53 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Letter Lae |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩓ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩓ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A53 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A53 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a53 |