U+1A7C "᩼" Tai Tham Sign Khuen-Lue Karan Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1A7C "᩼" Tai Tham Sign Khuen-Lue Karan is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing languages such as Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific sign functions as a tone marker or a modification symbol within the Khuen-Lue orthographic tradition, indicating a particular tonal pronunciation or grammatical feature in those languages. It is part of a broader system of signs that enhance the script's ability to accurately represent the phonetic nuances of Tai languages, and its inclusion in Unicode ensures that digital text in these scripts can be properly encoded and displayed.

General Properties

Code Point U+1A7C
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Sign Khuen-Lue Karan
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 0xBC
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1A7C
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001A7C
C/C++/Java Escape \u1a7c

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 Syllable Modifier
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