U+1A57 "ᩗ" Tai Tham Consonant Sign La Tang Lai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A57 "ᩗ" Tai Tham Consonant Sign La Tang Lai is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which historically writes the Tai Yuan, Tai Lue, and Khün languages of Southeast Asia. This specific sign functions as a tone marker or a modifier that changes the pronunciation of a consonant, typically indicating a rising or high tone depending on the language and context. It appears as a small curved symbol positioned above or attached to a consonant letter, and its proper rendering requires a font and system that support the complex typographic rules of the Tai Tham script, which is part of the Unicode Standard's Brahmic family block.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A57 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Consonant Sign La Tang Lai |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Spacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩗ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩗ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x97 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A57 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A57 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a57 |