U+1A98 "᪘" Tai Tham Tham Digit Eight Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1A98 "᪘" Tai Tham Tham Digit Eight is a numeral used in the Tai Tham script, an abugida historically employed for writing multiple Tai languages including Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. Found in the Tai Tham block of Unicode, this grapheme represents the number eight and is part of a decimal digit set used for traditional numbering in religious, historical, and cultural manuscripts from regions such as northern Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, and southern China. The digit's appearance follows the distinctive curved and angular style characteristic of the Tai Tham script, which is still used in some contexts for religious inscriptions and heritage documentation.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1A98 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Tham Digit Eight |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Decimal Number |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᪘ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᪘ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAA 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1A98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001A98 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1a98 |