U+1AA5 "᪥" Tai Tham Sign Dokmai Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1AA5 "᪥" Tai Tham Sign Dokmai is a punctuation mark used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed to write the Northern Thai, Tai Lue, and Khün languages. This specific sign functions as a visual ornament or decorative mark, often appearing in manuscripts to indicate a pause, sentence break, or textual division, similar to a comma or period in other writing systems. Its name "Dokmai" translates to "flower" or "floral design" in Thai, reflecting its origin as a stylized floral symbol that adds both structural clarity and aesthetic embellishment to traditional religious and literary texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AA5 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Sign Dokmai |
| Block | Tai Tham |
| General Category | Other Punctuation |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ᪥ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ᪥ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE1 0xAA 0xA5 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AA5 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AA5 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1aa5 |