U+1AAA "᪪" Tai Tham Sign Satkaan Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+1AAA "᪪" Tai Tham Sign Satkaan is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, which is historically employed for writing various languages including Northern Thai (Lanna), Tai Lü, and Khün. This specific sign functions as a tone marker, indicating a particular tonal contour in the syllable it modifies, thereby playing a crucial role in distinguishing meaning in tonal languages. Its presence in the Unicode standard ensures that digital texts in these regional languages can be accurately represented and preserved for linguistic and cultural documentation.

General Properties

Code Point U+1AAA
Version Added 5.2
Name Tai Tham Sign Satkaan
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 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0x1AAA
UTF-32 Encoding 0x00001AAA
C/C++/Java Escape \u1aaa

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Complex Context Dependent (South East Asian)
Script Tai Tham
Script Extensions Tai Tham
Indic Syllabic Category Other
Terminal Punctuation Yes
Sentence Terminal Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break STerm