U+1A59 "ᩙ" Tai Tham Consonant Sign Final Nga Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ᩙ
U+1A59 "ᩙ" Tai Tham Consonant Sign Final Nga is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which historically writes languages like Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Tai Lue, and Khün. This specific sign appears as a final consonant marker, indicating a closing 'nga' sound at the end of a syllable, and is placed above or attached to a base consonant to modify its pronunciation. As part of the Tai Tham block in Unicode, it preserves the traditional orthography of these Southeast Asian languages, allowing for accurate digital representation and text processing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A59 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Consonant Sign Final Nga |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩙ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩙ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0x99 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A59 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A59 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a59 |