U+1A7F "᩿" Tai Tham Combining Cryptogrammic Dot Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᩿
U+1A7F "᩿" Tai Tham Combining Cryptogrammic Dot is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida historically employed for writing Northern Thai, Tai Lue, and other related languages in Southeast Asia. This combining dot functions as a cryptic or encoded marker, often placed above a consonant or syllable to indicate a concealed or secret meaning, typically in liturgical, divinatory, or esoteric contexts such as palm-leaf manuscripts. Its precise application can vary by tradition, but it generally serves to signal that the marked text is not to be read literally and requires specialized knowledge to interpret.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A7F |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Combining Cryptogrammic Dot |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Below |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᩿ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᩿ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xA9 0xBF |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A7F |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A7F |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a7f |