U+1AA9 "᪩" Tai Tham Sign Kaankuu Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
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U+1AA9 "᪩" Tai Tham Sign Kaankuu is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing languages like Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific sign functions as a tone marker, indicating a particular tonal or phonetic modification in the syllable it accompanies. It is part of the Tai Tham block in Unicode, where it is classified as a combining mark, meaning it attaches to a base character to alter its pronunciation within the complex orthographic system of the script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AA9 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Sign Kaankuu |
| 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 0xA9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AA9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AA9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1aa9 |