U+AA88 "ꪈ" Tai Viet Letter Low Ngo Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

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

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