U+AA81 "ꪁ" Tai Viet Letter High Ko Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪁ
U+AA81 "ꪁ" Tai Viet Letter High Ko is a glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is primarily employed for writing the Tai Dam, Tai Don, and Tai Daeng languages spoken in parts of Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. This specific character represents a high-register consonant sound, comparable to the English "k," and is distinguished by its stacked diacritic-like marking to indicate its high tonal class. The inclusion of this letter in the Unicode standard supports the digital preservation and typing of these tonal languages, which rely on distinct consonant classes to convey differences in pronunciation and meaning.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA81 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter High Ko |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪁ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪁ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0x81 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA81 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA81 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa81 |