U+1A60 "᩠" Tai Tham Sign Sakot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A60 "᩠" Tai Tham Sign Sakot is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing languages such as Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Tai Lü, and Khün. This sign is visually represented as a small, horizontal line or shape that is placed above a consonant, and its primary function is to indicate the suppression or cancellation of the inherent vowel sound of that consonant, effectively creating a consonant cluster or stacking of characters. In practice, Šakot plays a crucial role in the accurate representation of script ligatures and compound word formations, ensuring that the written form reflects the proper phonetic structure of the language.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A60 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Sign Sakot |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Virama |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩠ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩠ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0xA0 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A60 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A60 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a60 |