U+1A61 "ᩡ" Tai Tham Vowel Sign A Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A61 "ᩡ" Tai Tham Vowel Sign A is a combining diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed to write languages such as Northern Thai (Tai Yuan), Tai Lue, and Khün. This vowel sign represents a short 'a' sound and is placed above the consonant it modifies, altering the base character's pronunciation by adding the inherent vowel quality. It is part of the Tai Tham block in Unicode, which supports the traditional script used primarily in religious and cultural texts across regions of Northern Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and China's Yunnan province.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A61 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Vowel Sign A |
| 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 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A61 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A61 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a61 |