U+AA81 "ꪁ" Tai Viet Letter High Ko Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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 Viet
Script Extensions Tai Viet
Indic Syllabic Category Consonant
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Rotated
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter