U+1AAC "᪬" Tai Tham Sign Hang Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
᪬
U+1AAC "᪬" Tai Tham Sign Hang is a diacritical mark used in the Tai Tham script, a writing system historically employed for languages such as Tai Lü, Khün, and Northern Thai (Lan Na). This specific sign functions as a tone marker, modifying the pronunciation of a syllable by indicating a particular tonal contour, which is essential for conveying accurate meaning in these tonal languages. Its design typically appears as a small, hook like symbol attached above or beside a consonant character, and it plays a crucial role in the orthographic representation of the Tai Tham writing tradition.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1AAC |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Tham Sign Hang |
| 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 0xAC |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x1AAC |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00001AAC |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u1aac |