U+AA88 "ꪈ" Tai Viet Letter Low Ngo Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
ꪈ
U+AA88 "ꪈ" Tai Viet Letter Low Ngo is a specific glyph used in the Tai Viet script, which is employed for writing several Tai languages, including Tai Dam, Tai Dón, and Thai Song. This character represents a low tone consonant sound, specifically the velar nasal /ŋ/, and is part of the script's system of high and low consonants that distinguish tone in the languages. The Tai Viet block was added to the Unicode Standard in 2009 to support the digital representation of these historically rich Southeast Asian writing systems, ensuring that the unique typographic needs of the Tai communities are preserved in modern computing.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+AA88 |
| Version Added | 5.2 |
| Name | Tai Viet Letter Low Ngo |
| Block | Tai Viet |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ꪈ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ꪈ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xEA 0xAA 0x88 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xAA88 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000AA88 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \uaa88 |