U+1A78 "᩸" Tai Tham Sign Khuen Tone-4 Unicode Character

U+1A78 "᩸" Tai Tham Sign Khuen Tone-4 is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida employed for writing several languages of Southeast Asia, including Northern Thai (Kham Mueang), Tai Lue, and Khün. This specific tone mark belongs to the Khün language variety and indicates the fourth tone, which is crucial for distinguishing meaning in words that would otherwise be homographs, thereby reflecting the tonal nature of the languages it supports.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1A78
Version Added	5.2
Name	Tai Tham Sign Khuen Tone-4
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 0xB8
UTF-16 Encoding	0x1A78
UTF-32 Encoding	0x00001A78
C/C++/Java Escape	\u1a78

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Joining Type	Transparent
Line Break	Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Case Ignorable	Yes
Script	Tai Tham
Script Extensions	Tai Tham
Indic Syllabic Category	Tone Mark
Indic Positional Category	Top
Indic Conjunct Break	Extend
ID Continue	Yes
XID Continue	Yes
Diacritic	Yes
Vertical Orientation	Rotated
Grapheme Extend	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Extend
Word Break	Extend
Sentence Break	Extend