U+1A77 "᩷" Tai Tham Sign Khuen Tone-3 Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A77 "᩷" Tai Tham Sign Khuen Tone-3 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 Lue, and Khün. Specifically, this sign indicates the third tone in the Khün dialect, a language spoken primarily in the eastern Shan State of Myanmar and parts of Yunnan, China. It appears above a consonant character to modify the syllable's pronunciation, forming an essential part of the tonal system that distinguishes meaning in these Tai languages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A77 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Sign Khuen Tone-3 |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩷ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩷ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A77 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a77 |